Brief Context
In News Bamanwas Kankar Panchayat, Rajasthan, has become the first fully organic village body in the state, covering seven hamlets. Organic farming Organic farming is a sustainable agricultural system that avoids synthetic inputs and relies on natural, on-farm resources for nutrient management and eco-friendly methods for pest and disease control. It promotes safe food production, lowers production costs, improves soil health, and helps mitigate climate change by reducing dependence on chemical
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Syllabus: GS3/Economy/Environment
In News
- Bamanwas Kankar Panchayat, Rajasthan, has become the first fully organic village body in the state, covering seven hamlets.
Organic farming
- Organic farming is a sustainable agricultural system that avoids synthetic inputs and relies on natural, on-farm resources for nutrient management and eco-friendly methods for pest and disease control.
- It promotes safe food production, lowers production costs, improves soil health, and helps mitigate climate change by reducing dependence on chemical fertilizers.
Advantages of organic farming
- It helps to maintain environmental health by reducing the level of pollution.
- It reduces human and animal health hazards by reducing the level of residues in the product.
- It helps in keeping agricultural production at a sustainable level.
- It reduces the cost of agricultural production and also improves soil health.
- It ensures optimum utilization of natural resources for short-term benefit and helps in conserving them for future generation.
- It not only saves energy for both animal and machine, but also reduces risk of crop failure.
- It improves the soil physical properties such as granulation, good tilth, good aeration, easy root penetration and improves water-holding capacity and reduces erosion.
- It improves the soil’s chemical properties such as supply and retention of soil nutrients, reduces nutrient loss into water bodies and environment and promotes favourable chemical reactions.
Governments steps
- The Government of India has been promoting Organic farming in the country through dedicated schemes namely Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana(PKVY) and Mission Organic Value Chain Development for North Eastern Region(MOVCDNER) since 2015-16 to cater to the needs of domestic and export markets respectively.
- National Centre of Organic Farming is a nodal organization for promotion of organic farming under Integrated Nutrient Management(INM) Division, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare.
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