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Being an agricultural student in Nepal, I have come across lots of debate on the topic of organic agriculture. Most of the people in the developed countries don?t know what this debate is about. While Organic farming seems charmingly eco-friendly and there seems to be no problem regarding organic farming, there is also another part to be looked upon mostly with regard to developing countries like Nepal. Major debate on Organic farming I have been to a number of the conferences and workshops related to agriculture and environment and the major questions that have arisen are
1. Is organic agriculture really suitable for developing country like Nepal (since organic agriculture produces lesser than the inorganic agriculture and the produce is relatively more expensive)? 2. Should we see our health and the environment while many are dieing of hunger? 3. Can we really afford organic agriculture in Nepal?
Well the questions lie side by side but what I believe is being greener and familiar to the mother earth has more benefits than harm. The undergraduate curriculum in agriculture has added a new subject from this year in our college, IAAS, Rampur, Chitwan, Nepal and the subject is Organic Agriculture. On the project work of this subject, our respected teacher, Mr. Khem Raj Dahal gave us an opportunity to research on organic farming of rice. Each plot has been assigned to two of us and the treatment on each plot is different some are vermicompost, some are controlled ( no use of any type of manure and fertilizers), some are organic compost and some are chemical fertilizers. We have planted rice and by the end of November we will get the rice grains. By this research we want to see the difference in organic and inorganic farming. I will surely share the result in coming posts. Yes, surely, the access to the international market, safer food and health are the advantages of the organic agriculture but the debate that is going in Nepal can?t be overlooked. To everybody who reads my article, I would like to ask for opinions, ? Is organic agriculture feasible for developing countries like Nepal?? |
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its very feasible in our context
Posted 28-12-2013 00:13
amazing!
Posted 15-10-2013 10:51
@Smriti Of course I am Pro-organic farming. Because the current mass-production system will take much more tall from us like bio-toxic and land degradation. The key is not increasing the quantity of food but ethical consumption of food like mindful eating so that the food waste can be prevented.
Posted 07-10-2013 13:45
thank you for sharing this Smriti, well I am also visiting in different organic farms and stores to help my friends research in the very subject, what i have come to know is, only the production in the first year of commencement of organic farming is less, once the soil quality improves the production also increases..
Posted 06-10-2013 23:38
Thank you for sharing
Posted 04-10-2013 23:49
offcourse it is feasible, organic tea, coffee has broad market in developed countries similarly if we can produce other organic fruits we can have very good result... thanks for sharing our project work here in tunza.
Posted 04-10-2013 23:33
Upakar, Sia, Christy what do you think about the organic farming?
Posted 04-10-2013 16:40
thanks Christy for helping me out
Posted 04-10-2013 16:39
Thanks for sharing
Posted 04-10-2013 15:45
nice dd
Posted 04-10-2013 12:57
nice job sis
Posted 04-10-2013 12:57
@Smriti, Maybe I can answer the question :D
If you write the essay using MS word program, copy it and paste it onto the editor, the editor can't recognize apostrophes so it shows '?'.
To solve it, you can delete the apostrophe on the editor and type the apostrophe directly on the editor. Then the report will show all apostrophes.
Posted 04-10-2013 10:45
Eco-generation, I had requested this before. There is a technical problem I think. When we type apostrophe in our reports, the webpage displays it as question mark, am i the only one to have this problem? Can tunza eco-generation fix it?
Posted 04-10-2013 01:09