Step forward with organic farming?.
Alongside the world’s aspirations toward a sustainable future, using fertilizers and pesticides for cultivations is increasing massively.
The excessive and unconscious application of conventional farming has led to major problems in many agricultural areas of the world, resulting in contamination of drinking water resources in aquifers as well as eutrophication of freshwater and costal marine ecosystems.
One of the environmental consequences resulting from conventional farming is soil erosion which happens as result of electrolyte imbalance and chemical toxins because the same crop is being grown time after time, on the contrary of organic farming, which enhances and promotes health of the soil through the crop rotation.
Fukoka is one of many who thinks a sustainable future can only be achieved by organic farming.
In 1988, the world applied 137 million metric tons of chemical fertilizers, of which US agricultural system consumed approximately 15% of them.
Although it is well-known that the crop yields as a result of organic farming are slightly lower than conventional farming.
A fertile soil is rich in nutrients which is highly important for crop plant growth.
Food toxicity is one of the miserable consequences of industrial farming and it can lead to direct carcinogenic and other diseases.
Unfortunately, over 99% of Americans were tested positive for exposure to DDT.