Tag: organic farming
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‘Paruthi’, an organic cotton brand, aims to promote rain-fed cotton, grown in Madurai
By: A. SHRIKUMAR, in The Hindu In many villages in Madurai district, cotton is more than just a crop. The cotton flower. Today, 400-odd farmers spin their own yarns and weave them in handlooms. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ In 13 villages around Arasapatti near Tirumangalam in Madurai district, cotton is more than just a crop. It’s a symbol…
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Organic Soil – good for the earth, good for the atmosphere
Phil Robertson may be on the cusp of solving a long-standing mystery. Boosters of organic food often say the practice, which rejects synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, is a good method for curbing climate change because it stores more carbon in the soil. But aside from anecdotal observations, no one could really explain the dynamics behind…
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Agroecology – A Potentially World-Saving Concept
In his recent article “How to Feed the World” on the World Policy Blog, Alvaro Rodriguez notes that our current industrial food system is failing to feed the world. Today roughly 15 percent of the world’s population, some 1 billion people, goes hungry. At the same time, fertilizer overuse remains a major cause of environmental…
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Community Ownership at top of Organic Farms’ Agenda
News of community buy-outs in Scotland has become more common in recent years, as land from Assynt to Eigg and Knoydart to Gigha and South Uist has been taken into local ownership with the help of the Scottish Government in a bid to give control of the land to the people who live on it.…
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What the Russians can teach us about growing organic crops!
Christina Sarich at Infowars.com touts the success of small scale organic farming in Russia and encourages Americans to learn from it: On a total of about 20 million acres managed by over 35 million Russian families, Russians are carrying on an old-world technique, which we Americans might learn from. They are growing their own organic crops –…
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One More Reason to Eat Organic: We’re running out of fertilizer
AUTHOR: JULIE M. RODRIGUEZ One of the most frustrating aspects of the organic food “debate” is the fact that the conversation seems to be stuck debating whether organic food is more nutritionally dense than conventionally-grown food. So when studies come out showing that you won’t get more vitamins from eating organic, conventional growers use that to bash organic…
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