A new green agriculture label may take on organic
IS ORGANIC farming really as green as its reputation? Certainly, nobody can fault rotating crops and planting what grows best in a given area, but ordinary farmers also use such methods.
Organic farming fundamentally rests on two sets of practices. One is limiting the use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides.
The other is creating, in the words of the Soil Association, a “holistic method of farming that is supposed to work with—rather than against—natural systems”. Healthy soil is at the heart of this practice, so organic farmers avoid herbicides—which may pollute groundwater and damage micro-organisms in the soil—and instead control weeds by ploughing.
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