Organic Framing

 Module 3:

Organic Farming

 

Organic Farming was a blissful event in punyakestra nandipur in the presence of Shri Dr. Maheshwara Swamiji.

He gave many information about the farming. The way of their farming is very traditional and natural with ayurvedic essentials. The farm was filled with Medicinal plants and other plants were grown by using natural pesticides which are very healthier for human body. The waste management were   

very well organized among the farm which produces biodegradable gas. The organic manure was prepared in the farm itself using cow dung.The water is supplied to the plants from water harvesting ponds constructed in farm.

 

Organic farming is agriculture that makes healthy food, healthy soils, healthy plants, and healthy environments a priority, along with crop productivity. Organic farmers use biological fertilizer inputs and management practices such as cover cropping and crop rotation to improve soil quality and build organic soil matter. By increasing the amount of organic matter in the soil, organic farmers enhance the soil’s ability to absorb water, reducing the impacts of drought and flooding. Improving soil organic matter also helps it to absorb and store carbon and other nutrients need to grow healthy crops, which, in turn, are better able to resist insects and diseases.

Organic Waste Management

Composting is a managed process which utilizes microorganisms naturally present in organic matter and soil to decompose organic material. These microorganisms require basic nutrients, oxygen, and water in order for decomposition to occur at an accelerated pace. The end-product, compost, is a dark brown, humus-like material which can be easily and safely handled, stored, and used as a valuable soil conditioner. The composting process is dependent upon several factors, including: the population of microorganisms, carbon to nitrogen ratio, oxygen level, temperature, moisture, surface area, pH, and time.

Proper Use of Pesticides

Before using pesticides, obtain the proper training. See section on pesticide licensing.

Delaying Pesticide Resistance

To use fewer pesticides, it is important that pesticides, when used, are effective at killing pests. Pests can become resistant to pesticides making the pesticide ineffective for management.  Resistance is genetic in nature, and an insect or mite cannot become resistant or acquire resistance during its life (that is, within one generation). Resistance is stimulated by widespread application of a pesticide but some individual pests survive and pass on genetic factors to the next generation.  A chemical cannot adjust in response to genetic changes in the
pest population that help the pest survive the chemical application. Thus, the surviving pests can transfer the resistance factor(s) into the population, allowing the population to become resistant over a period of time. Repeat applications with one type of pesticide eventually remove almost all the susceptible individuals from a pest population and leave only those with the resistant gene.

Pests can become resistant to insecticides to which they have never been exposed. This can happen when two insecticides have a similar mode of action. Mode of Action (MoA) is how a pesticide specifically kills a pest. If two (or more) insecticides attack the pest in the same way, a resistance mechanism to one insecticide may also provide resistance to the other, even though the pest may never have been exposed to that second insecticide.

Honey Bee cultivation

Honey Bee Farming in India, it may not have been a long time since it started commercially, but collecting honey from the forests has been in existence since ancient times. Honey bees convert the juice of flowers into honey and store that honey in the hive.

The rising demand for honey in the market indicates that beekeeping in India can emerge as a profitable enterprise at present. Let’s talk about the products produced from beekeeping in India. Honey and honey wax are two significant products produced from it. Any farmer can start this ago-based business to get extra income. This business is a traditional occupation to make honey.As far as honey is concerned, its demand is growing continuously in the national and international markets due to its many industrial and domestic uses. By starting this business, farmers are earning money and the farming productivity increases due to pollination. Most of the ordinary or traditional agriculture has been done in our country India. After experiencing continuous losses in them, the farmers have shifted towards the Beekeeping business.