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. Penny subsidiary launched an initiative to help farmers who are transitioning to organic standards thereby boosting the sector. Adat. We give 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 they pass on in the retail price high 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. Tree. We do it well not only to plug the harvest of us divil from the fair but do we like to see the hell. We go for practicing. Into cropping. Or maintaining the saw fit to. And
planting only a single crop. In every day gives us the bad. The healthy ways so we go further of an idea of. The harvest 3 times a year. 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 reeds insect pests and diseases. Compost replaces artificial fertiliser. Part of the process help break down the organic waste into high quality compost for the fields. You know the crops clearly dont need chemical 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 crop failure. But in the setbacks arent a disaster making a profit isnt the 1st priority and in the long run they know their harvests are dependable and with. One reason is Crop Rotation another is the compost it ensures a very healthy fertile soil so theres an old 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. See comes organic farmers have faith in their methods they cant understand why other countries arent following your example especially germany. But what they feel is money is being all of it is sound in value. They have
a lot of knowledge of we have a small state here in germany many many. Many people live there with the with the intellectual mind so i think well. Go and practice this. Founding in germany. The reason why farmers and see come 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 both 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
robbie kind of his day fervently believes the extra work is worth it. Organic farming is and the Ecosystem Services that we have a lot of water in it does that go through. Increases the Bumblebee Population Increase of commission of them grieve for you have the impact on the Production System pioneered. 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 seeking became the worlds 1st region to switch to 100 percent organic agriculture has a lot. To do with peoples attitudes. With
a big. Conference or big friend i regret. It for you would you. Pass by that i had noticed here is that these farmers have a different mentality. Understand that theyre part of nature. Or might be something to do with their fates but they respect nature. And i was decent and because of that they cant really imagine using agro toxin eyes and artificial fertilisers dillards as its. Chemical free farming in a vision that seacom is making reality. Here at another Research Institute staff and farmers have gathered to meet the man who led sea kms reinvention as a model organic state Pub Uncharming was indias longest serving Chief Minister and
he is the son of farmers and travels regularly through the state drumming up support for his mission. Good group of the. Community chris waiting 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. Their pov on chumming is playing the long game it was very hot. The. Used to say. Part of most it was the. Habit and a way of thinking this is a very difficult. But slowly people. Realize that we have to decide. Now 3 other states in
india are planning to go fully organic in the house come on channeling one the people of seek him over to his vision others are now following suit. My. Dad toward a 3rd be organic by 2050 and for that we. Are better. If we did what. It is definitely possible this is my message to the board. 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 Needling 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 farm tweet is calling the incident in bites you can see with the naked eye and that the crop is healthier. Poster device and pushed on to consume piece was. Under control no problem its a flourishing wheat field. I go to john and i says the fall guys are by. 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 you know it seemed a bit late so it wasnt very effective and just see it cool as you think that an unusual amount of damage. In fact is sort of a problem is usually very easily solved with Organic Farming methods you know. Even if Organic Farming requires time and effort fortunately predicts tough times ahead for conventional farming. But the soft go sees the small income its a dead end because a number of problems have become insurmountable to see that hes going to be certain we have aids or resistant to our bizarre scene today certain diseases are resistant to fungicides. Really seeing were seeing increased Sorely Roshan and Soil Compaction hobby or that as a Result Systems are becoming uncontrollable because theyre no longer robust
colony 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. 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 breeds 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 were the ones who bear the costs. For example because we have to pay for purification of Drinking Water through to the nitrate and pesticides used in farming Court Decision but we share those cause. If we 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 is the least of 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. Hope 3 to buy it. For you to move in the pieces faith used to take 25 people working on a whole afternoon to achieve the same result we can now achieve with one person using a tractor and a robot that would help. Them. Geier rounds off his trip to see come with a visit to the countrys largest 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 he 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 its a boy anyone who maintains that large scale monoculture farming is impossible without chemicals should come here and see that it is. Space on the land. Once the leaves have been harvested the tea pickers take them to be weighed they earn significantly higher wages than their counterparts in neighboring darjeeling 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 for quite significantly but now youve given almost 12 years now all the bugs and