Humanities
What is an organic farm?
Is basically farming but works in harmony with nature rather than against it. It uses techniques of farming of good crops yields without harming the natural environment and the people.
How does organic farming affect the environment in a different way than conventional farming?
Organic farming creates a healthy balance between nature and farming, where crops and animal can grow. In organic farming it uses all benefits from the environment to success, even pests and weeds.
• increase long-term soil fertility.
• control pests and diseases without harming the environment.
• ensure that water stays clean and safe.
• use resources which the farmer already has, so the farmer needs less
money to buy farm inputs.
• produce nutritious food, feed for animals and high quality crops to sell at a
good price.
While conventional farming uses industrial fertilizer, doesn’t control the benefits of environment, produce less nutritious food.
How does eating organic food affect our bodies?
The organic farming produces nutritious food at a high quality crops, it clearly will give a positive impact to our body. Since our body need nutrients, organic food could be useful for us to increase our nutritious. So the affect given to our body is to be healthier by eating the organic food. Organic food is very healthy; there are no fats, chemicals, and artificial nutrients. It give only natural nutrients to keep our body fit.
How is organic farming sustainable?
To maintain their sustainability the farmers or workers needs to manage the soil well. This involves considering soil life, nutrients, and structure. By feeding the soil with compost feeds the whole variety of life in the soil which then turns this material into food for plant growth. This also adds nutrients and organic matter to the soil. Green manures also provide nutrients and organic matter. This is the way of maintaining sustainability with soil.
How could organic farming help to address environmental issues in Indonesia?
Indonesia is one of the countries that have a problem maintaining the environment in the right way. Such as cutting down trees, destroying habitat, killing animals, or global warming. The organic farming can help by having more plants and crops to and be more environmental friendly. This can prevent global warming since plants are starting to increase by organic farming. As well the animals can involve in the organic farming process.