Organic Farming vs Conventional Farming System
If you are one of the 81% of farmers still farming conventionally and using chemicals and synthetic fertilizers it is completely understandable.
Why?
Because for decades that’s what has been advocated to the farmer by the industry.
There is so much “proof” – research, trial work, field trials, scientists advocating the merits of conventional farming and you are constantly given proof that you can’t farm profitably without these commercial aids.
Just pick up most farm journals and papers and you’ll find there are reports and editorials which continually reinforce the use of conventional farming products and practices as the only viable way to farm. Sometimes there are reports tossed in to discredit natural farming as being uncommercial and unrealistic. We are told time and time again that conventional industrial farming is the only way we can feed the growing world’s population. Organic farming has lower yields, is more expensive and there is no extra nutritional benefit in the food produced. (more…)