Daily Times

Organic farming in Pakistan is basically an environmental friendly ecosystem management, which eliminates the usage of all genres of synthetic inputs. It aims to decrease the production cost  to attain self-sufficiency in all the inputs of agri-products.

Organic farming helps to sustain an environmental friendly impact by avoidance of use of materials from non-renewable resources, by recycling waste, making a least or almost no usage of pesticides and insecticides, avoidance of resources causing pollution and following crop rotation.

In addition, it helps to improve the biological activity of the soil by using animal manure, green manure, and by application of biological pest control methods. Organic matter composts improve the soil health, and resultantly the health of the plants. Improved soil health resultantly aids in accelerating population of worms, fungi and related soil organisms. The land is protected from the damages caused by soil degradation, erosion and increases the input of moisture in the land.

Besides, it also helps to reduce nitrate pollution and meets the nutritional and physiological requirements of the humans. Organic agricultural techniques take into consideration the moral, religious and dietary concerns of our society. Usually, people express concerns about conventional farming techniques, which entail degradation of the environments and exploitation of natural and human resources. Organic farm produce is deemed to be lawful and clean in terms of its production, processing, packaging and trading within the social structures.