Organic agriculture is a production system that seeks to make maximum use of the farm's resources, emphasizing soil fertility and biological activity while minimizing the use of non-renewable resources and not using synthetic fertilizers and pesticides to protect the environment and human health.
▶ According to the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements, which defines organic agriculture as all agricultural systems that promote the healthy and safe production of food and textile fibers from an environmental, social and economic point of view.
These systems are based on soil fertility as the basis for good production, respecting the natural requirements and capacities of plants, animals and the landscape, and seek to optimize the quality of agriculture and the environment in all its aspects. Organic agriculture considerably reduces the need for external inputs by not using chemical fertilizers, pesticides or other synthetic products.
Instead, it allows the powerful laws of nature to increase both yields and crop resistance. Organic products are those that are produced, stored, processed, handled and marketed according to precise specifications and techniques.
The biological process in which organic matter is transformed into humus soil (compost) by means of microorganisms is the most widely used in organic agriculture in such a way that the necessary conditions (especially temperature, C/N ratio, aeration and humidity) are ensured.
This type of organic fertilizer provides the farmer with some economic and ecological advantages, among which we can mention the following: It reduces the amount of chemical use by a more economical and natural product, it contributes to preserve natural resources, it also reduces air and water pollutant loads, through the commercialization of compost in a solid waste management system part of the costs of collection can be recovered, and the amount of solid waste can be reduced.
