A niche market why is it still not mainstream is seek them an example for other countries to follow. The authorities and see come are strict conventionally farmed fruits and vegetables are forbidden so theyre being destroyed. One of the. Smugglers were looking to sell this produce at a market in gun talk the state capital the smugglers were caught bypassing tamang who is employed by the government as a food control officer. So we are doing something good for our or our. Thats why i feel sad because we are giving examples for the whole world this is not good for hell this is not good for environment so we are destroying all these things. Fresh produce is destroyed on a regular basis and cecum with its policy the Regional Government is taking a firm stance against global farming practices that rely heavily on chemical fertilizers and pesticides. In 2016 became the worlds 1st 100 percent organic state. Nestled in the eastern himalayas seacom covers 7000 square kilometers roughly half the size of the german state of. The mile high city talk is its capital. Might be part of india but in terms of Agricultural Policy its forged its own path for the last 3 years. Produce of valuable to its nearly 700000 inhabitants is organic only. Ive got are going to flood because for my kids the problem i saw is especially for health you know how that issue especially good for kids for adults and i go for organic food not just decides for. Organic farming expert. Has traveled to see them on behalf of several International Organizations for sustainability hes here to see if its agriculture really is 100 percent organic and if it is how has the state managed in his 1st impressions are positive if i just try to pepper its fiery hot thats a real bite exactly how a pepper should be. By the carrots are very fresh you can tell they were picked just yesterday. Its a pleasure to see how fresh everything is what good quality the pie is are excellent. I just want to cut them open to get so thats organic should be delicious looking produce with great flavor make from a just because thats organic let me feel. Ok or has been tasked with deciding if seacom should be nominated for a Prestigious International award for policies promoting agro a college to spend a week here as a guest from germany a country seen in c come as highly progressive in terms of organic farming. Georg meyerhoff runs a conventional farm near passed in southern germany approximately 60 percent of his earnings come from crops used for bio gas he wants to farm sustainably and avoid using pesticides but he doesnt believe that a complete switch to organic is necessary. Biters shimon on both types of farming produce healthy crops that will help you live to 100 when that the auto as it this is the analytics we use are very precise as you can always get these days we can identify even the slightest residue so the idea that conventional farming has adverse effects on Peoples Health im very skeptical as us get this. Despite his reservations georg meyer huffer experiments with organic practices now and then this year he did not use any insecticide on the rate seed he grows for human consumption today he wants to see if thats made a difference. Its one of us many u. S. Citizen befalls were seeing here is an infestation of rape stem weevils for me the feeling for me as a farmer its always very hard to gauge exactly what the pesticide does the Vehicle Museum is react to but you dont know exactly what effect its had. With noir but id like to try new things out and as a beekeeper i wanted to see if doing without pesticides is a viable option you know. Its all down to the harvest is often not all that often given the infestation were seeing here its not looking promising. To switch to organic farming is a time consuming process and calls for a lot of patience crops and soil need to adjust after years of conventional farming. My whole force experiment with rape seed has cost him 25 percent of his usual yield next year hell go back to spraying his crops with conventional farming crop losses arent factored into the business model. In order to maximize profits farmers need to be an organized and unanimous group. Its German Farmers day in the spot in the annual conference of the German Farmers association. The event demonstrates how much of farming in germany worse its a large scale industry led by risk adverse interest groups. Meet me most of the delegates insist they are open minded about organic farming but theyre also quick to stress that its a tricky market. When vo fine and from out of in one of india will obviously if we dont find sellers organic farming sector tells us that it prefers organic grain imported from ukraine then we need to take that into account were not operating in a vacuum the market exists. Sand it will continue to grow but a centrally planned 100 percent switched to organic farming just doesnt make sense. Kinds of. Judging by the mood at the farmers General Assembly organic farming has little chance of flourishing the association carefully cultivates its ties to the chemicals industry one of the Worlds Largest pesticide manufacturers is among the event sponsors. And yet among German Farmers there are many opponents of conventional methods here in the isle to slant region north of hamburg all respect mun turned his back on Old School Farming after 20 years. Its going to rain again on the weekend and if you go even just lets get rid of those weeds in the culture are all by the front so to get started. His Apple Orchard covers 50 hectares 2 years ago that month stopped using glyphosate and pesticides he uses mechanical methods to tackle weeds and relies on nature to regulate itself but weed control without the help of chemicals is a major challenge. Weve got an infestation of pests thats a part of organic farming but for me its a new problem both loyalists. And we dont have the option of regulating it we just have to hope that nature comes to our aid thats you know its well and that beneficial insects are able to fight the pests in the log is the scheveningen with some to come from. A drop in yield is to be expected after a switch to organic farming the oil in all this is here weve also got clouded drab moths an apple scab thats leaving. In the 1st year the apple harvest shrunk by 30 percent a tough lesson. Among fish trying to get Financial Support for converting but its nowhere near enough to offset the risk to farm you have to shoulder the risk yourself. Hes also not allowed to label his produce organic for the 1st 3 years thats because after decades of conventional farming the soil isnt yet certified as organic. The its that important i have the production costs of organic farming but im not in a position to market my produce as organic 35 so that adds up to costly production but uncertain prices through on. The here and pies and. Farmers who convert to organic farming get little to no subsidies it varies from state to state but now a discount supermarket better known for pressuring farmers to lower their prices is trying to help raise those pennies subsidiary launched an initiative to help farmers who are transitioning into organic standards thereby boosting the sector. Gap at so i got to have the stats and we get producers who have decided to make this transition a higher return for their produce than they would get on the free market for conventionally farm produce that means were paying them a premium which was passed on in the retail price so our customers are paying slightly more for this produce than they pay for conventionally farmed goods but not as much as they pay if the goods were certified organic. Its a scheme that makes Financial Sense for penny it saves costs by reducing its share of expensive imported goods. Just 8 percent of farms in germany are organic demand for locally sourced organic vegetables tends to exceed supply. Back in sea come here it took 13 years for the states agriculture to transition to organic 66000 farmers were retrained. Found guy is visiting mom and her husband. They have just 4 hectares of land but grow 16 sorts of fruits and vegetables even though they could live from sales of cauliflower broccoli and cabbage alone the tree. We like do it well not only to plug the harvest of us to build from the fair but we like to see the health of. We go for practising. Into cropping we go for maintaining the soil fertility and planting only a single crop. In every day gives us the back to. The healthy ways so we go further of an idea of that. They harvest 3 times a year their practice means they grow a main crop such as cauliflower alongside other crops that help it grow. The aim is to cultivate healthy and robust crops and suppress leads insect pests and diseases. Compost replaces artificial fertiliser. Part of the process they help break down the organic waste into high quality compost for the fields. You know the crops clearly dont need chemical use the harvests have been steady for 6 years so the farmer is astonished to find her potatoes affected by a fungal disease for the 1st time it could mean total crops fail. But these setbacks arent a disaster making a profit isnt the 1st priority and in the long run they know their harvests are dependable and the. One reason is Crop Rotation another is the compost it ensures a very healthy for tile soil so theres no soil borne disease. And the crops are very robust and here they use the curative properties of Plant Extracts to prevent the cross falling prey to disease. And the common thread. She comes organic farmers have faith in their methods they cant understand why other countries arent following their example especially in germany. What they feel is joe money is doing all this sounding value they have a lot of knowledge of we have a small state or in germany many many. Many many people. With the intellectual mind so i think you can. Go and practice this. Founding in germany. The reason why farmers in seacom suffer so few setbacks has its roots in the National OrganicFarming Research institute here scientists develop methods to optimally protect and strengthen agricultural crops based on traditional practices and the latest scientific findings. The farmers themselves have to be proactive over 700 further Training Programs are available to them maize cultivation for example this farmer is experimenting with using named tree extract as a form of pest control that doesnt adversely affect beneficial insects. Biologist rod. They fervently believes the extra work is worth it. And the Ecosystem Services that we have a lot of. The population has increased the bumblebee population increase the commission of inquiry for you have the impact on the production system. In seek feeding the population is the 1st consideration but all the while protecting biodiversity and the environment a wealth of expertise in organic farming has been built up here in the himalayas nature is seen as a valuable asset that deserves to be handled with care. The fact that seacom became the worlds 1st region to switch to 100 percent organic agriculture has a lot to do with peoples attitudes. To the big. Friends or big friends. If you would. Pass by that i had noticed here is that these farmers have a different mentality. That theyre part of nature. Or might be something to do with their fates at all but they respect nature. And i was the same as because of that they cant really imagine using agro toxin eyes and artificial fertilisers dillards as its. Chemical free farming a vision that seacom is making reality. Here at another Research Institute staff and farmers have gathered to meet the man who led seacom is reinvention as a model organic state. He was in the longest serving chief minister. He is the son of farmers and travels regularly through the state drumming up support for his mission. To persuading farmers to dispense with pesticides and artificial fertilisers wasnt easy at 1st for more than 40 years conventional farming was the norm here as it is across the rest of the country. Pop on channeling is playing the long game it was very hard to be. Used to sadly. Most it was because the people. That have it and where for thinking this is a very difficult. But slowly people. Realize we have decided organic. Now 3 other states in india are planning to go fully organic come on channeling one the people who seek him over to his vision others are now following suit. Should be organic by 2050 and for that we. Well. If we dont want to get that. It is definitely possible this is my message to the work. But the acid test is this does organic farming have the capacity to meet demand in large industrialized nations. Researchers in fricks switzerland are looking to answer this question for 40 years this field has been farmed conventionally directly next to it are fields that are being farmed organically the long term experiment has led to a significant finding the soil on the organic fields is of considerably higher quality. Of course nuclei heads up this ambitious experiment the only one of its kind worldwide he says it shows that organic plants are stronger and more robust than their detractors maintain. Your theology is to be faced with after 40 years we can see that here we have 75 to 80 percent of the yield of conventionally farmed tweet is calling the incident bites and you can see with the naked eye that the crop is healthier. Post the device and just on to consume those ripples weeds under control no problem its a flourishing field. I go to john and i use is the fall guy here to write. The researchers have also shown that there are fewer pest investigations on the organic fields obviously problems do arise organic pesticide has failed to tackle potato beetles for example. Weve seen it just a bit late so it wasnt very effective in the listed cool isnt it return unusual amount of damage. In fact this sort of problem is usually very easily solved with organic farming methods you know. Even if organic farming requires time and effort horse neatly predicts tough times ahead for conventional farming. But its acos it used a small income its a dead end because a number of problems have become insurmountable to see that hes going to be certain reeds are resistant to or bizarre in seeing that a certain diseases are resistant to fungicides growth receding were seeing increased sorely roshan and soil compaction or that as a result systems are becoming uncontrollable because theyre no longer robust colonies reroll groups. From his and his colleagues point of view the only type of farming that can meet the needs of the World Population and benefit the environment is organic farming. But it is consumers who will decide if they want organic war nonorganic for the time being 9 out of 10 consumers buy conventionally farmed produce mainly because its more affordable. But why are fruits and vegetables grown with the help of pesticides and artificial fertilisers so cheap its partly down to the supermarkets price wars but theres more to it than that. Another decisive factor the real costs and who bears them. Mr Adrian Miller has been exploring this issue for some time take milk 24. 00 grass fed cows are kept in the cow shed at the Swiss Research center each of them produces 6000 liters of milk a year high performing greens in conventional dairy farming are expected to produce up to 50 percent more if they are to be profitable this increased production is bad for the environment and its not usually the farmer who bears the cost. And the coast on the phone and thats what gets played on so were the ones who bear the cost. For example because we have to pay for purification of Drinking Water due to the nitrate and pesticides used in farming toward the city but we bear those costs look at the foot that make you free import animal feed then its the other countries who carry the cost of the animal feed production so were shifting the problem to other countries and in terms of Climate Change i think its the next generations will carry the cost of what were doing today so its an all round bad deal this isnt just placed at the. British researchers have calculated that if all the costs were taken into account we should be paying at least twice as much for conventionally produced food. But on the other hand in the future organic products could become cheaper thanks to agricultural robots and satellite navigation. Machinery i mean for out of this machine as an infrared camera. Can see it identifies weeds among the lettuce and cuts it away with a knife out. In hope 3 to buy it. For you to move in the if this is fate used to take 25 people working on a whole afternoon to achieve the same result we can now what she did with one person using a tractor and a robot that would help. Them. Guyer rounds off his trip to see come with a visit to the countrys largest agricultural area the tell me t. Garden covers 177. 00 hectares 400. 00 people work here producing some of the best organic tea in asia. Harvests are completely stable the added nutrients in the loamy soil ensure the tea bushes are highly resilient. Because organic tea plantation shows that its possible to produce tea in harmony with Nature Anyone who maintains that large scale monoculture farming is impossible without chemicals should come here and see that it is that ive been on here. Once the leaves have been harvested the tea pickers take them to be weighed they earn significantly higher wages than their counterparts in neighboring. Not least because the yields are good although they werent right after the plantation went organic harvests dropped by 2 thirds the plants were used to artificial fertilizers and pesticides and werent resilient enough all of. You quite significantly but now being almost 12 years not. Coming back again both 200 metric tons you do anything every year. Coming next 5 to 6 years movies that used to have when youre going through. Now the tea produced here meets all the requirements of major interNational Organic certification. Vanguard geier strip is drawing to an end hes deeply impressed by what hes seen. This was a case i have to say what ive seen here is unique worldwide including conditions in which the people who work in agriculture live in them and they dont have to deal with pesticides their workplace is healthy its you can see that theyre doing well and its a wonderful to see that farmers can have this much pride in what they do and they have that much to be proud. To sign. 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