CONTENTS

• Introduction• Integration of systems• Organic Farming in India• Clean Greens• Alternate Energy Use• Bt Cotton• 2 Case Studies – New Delhi – Kerala• Food Safety• Specific Objectives

INTRODUCTION• Organic farming is the form of agriculture that relies on techniques such as crop rotation, green manure, compost and biological pest control to maintain soil productivity and control pests on a farm.

• Organic agriculture is a production system that sustains the health of soils, ecosystems and people.

• Organic agriculture combines tradition, innovation and science to benefit the shared environment and promote fair relationships and a good quality of life for all involved.

• Organic farming also involves: careful use of water resources good animal husbandry

INTEGRATION OF SYSTEMSIN AN ORGANIC FARM

• The concept of polyculture should not be limited to plants only but extended to cover the whole farm.

• An example of such integration is : rice-fish/prawn systems where the fish/prawn mature in the waterlogged fields and are harvested before the water drains away (making use of available resources).

• A larger and more permanent example of integration could be : annual crops + tree crops + dairy cows + honey bees.

• The animals and tree crops are benefited by the honey bees (pollination); • crop residues and tree prunings are useful as cattle feed, green leaf manure and in composts;• the dung from the cattle is useful at the bio-gas plant, after which the slurry finds use in the fields as manure and in the compost heap.

ORGANIC FARMING: INDIA

• Farming in India probably tended more or less towards organic methods until the 1960s. It was labor-intensive.

• Green Revolution was an important Indian government program, it emphasized hybrid seeds, and chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

• But the downside of commercial farming was seen in air/ground/water pollution; indebtedness from the high costs of chemicals, mechanization, and transport; involvement in the world economy, and therefore it lead to sensitivity to demand and supply pressures outside of India; and poor soil quality.

• With the 21st century, organic methods are becoming more popular. For the costs may not be low. But then neither are the profits.

• European and North American buyers are looking to high standards, in both non-organic and organic food production.

PRODUCTS TONNES

Tea 3000

Rice 2500

Pulses and Vegetables 1800

Cotton 1200

Wheat 1150

Spices 700

Coffee 550

Cashew nut 375

Pulses 300

Herbal Products 250

Oil Seeds 100

TOTAL 11925

Exports of Organic Products from INDIA - 2000

Clean Greens! Food Stays Fresh Longer -- Tastes Better

• Concentrated Produce Wash: Clean Greens! detoxifies produce to remove chemicals, microorganisms, waxes, air-borne dust particulates (including jet stream particles) and dirt accumulated from the soil, cultivation, distribution, and handling.

• Clean Greens! preserves the natural, firm texture and reveals the natural taste and aroma of fresh produce.

• EVEN "PREWASHED" LETTUCE & SPINACH NEEDS TO BE WASHED WITH CLEAN GREENS!The majority of these mixes are washed in a chlorine-based rinse and residues will remain.

Great for - berries, lettuce, mushrooms, sweet potatoes, peaches, grapes, carrots, celery, cantaloupe -- any of your favorite fruits and vegetables.

•Washing the products in Clean Greens! will turn the chlorine into harmless, odorless, tasteless chloride.

Clean Greens! is made from all food-grade ingredients that are biodegradable, will not penetrate cell walls, and wash off completely.

• Food safety has become one of the most sensitive issues.

•Clean Greens! has been created to address all of these issues. Clean Greens! will also make non-organically grown produce closer to organic produce.

•Organic may reduce the pesticide fears, but quality and yield sometimes suffer and the nature of the process, (organic fertilizers, etc.) creates an atmosphere that requires an especially attentive cleaning process to reduce levels of bacteria, mold, and other potential illness residues.

According to published information, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), food borne diseases cause are estimated:

· 325,000 serious illnesses · 76 million cases of gastrointestinal illness · 5,000 deaths each year

ALTERNATE ENERGY USEAn organic farm should ideally rely as less as possible on grid electricity and fossil fuel for its energy needs. Some easily-implemented options for any farm in terms of alternate and / or renewable energy use are :

•Animal labor

• Solar Power

•Smokeless stoves/chulhas

• Wind Power

•Biogas

•Biofuels

•Biomagnifications

•Cotton and other monocultured crops require an intensive use of pesticides as various types of pests attack these crops causing extensive damage.• The Bt cotton variety contains a foreign gene obtained from bacillus thuringiensis. This bacterial gene, introduced genetically into the cotton seeds, protects the plants from bollworm (A. lepidoptora), a major pest of cotton.• Bt cotton requires only two sprays of chemical pesticide against eight sprays for normal variety.

Bt COTTON

Food product Contaminant pesticides

Apples Diphenylamine, Captan, Endosulfan, Phosmet, Azinphos-methyl

Bananas Diazinon, Thiabendazone, Carbaryl

Bell Peppers Methamidophos, Chlorpyrifos, Dimethoate, Acephate, Endosulfan

Cauliflower Methamidophos, Endosulfan, Dimethoate, Chlorothalonil, Diazion

Corn Sulfallate, Carbaryl, Chlorpyrifos, Dieldrin, Lindane

Spinach Endosuslfan, DDT, Methomyl, Methamidophos, Dimethoate

Oranges Methidathion, Chlorpyrifos, Ethion, Parathin, Carbary

Broccoli DCPA, Methamidophos, Demeton, Dimethoate, Parathion

Lettuce Mevinphos, Endosulfan, Permethrin, Dimethoate, Methomyl

etc……

CASE STUDIES

Fruits and Vegetables too have pesticides

New Delhi: A study by All India Co-ordinate Research Project on pesticide residues found 46 per cent of 359 samples of fruits and 64 per cent of the 592 vegetable samples it analyzed to contain residues of locally applied pesticides like endosulfan, chloropyriphos and halation.

"Out of 359 samples of different fruits analyzed, 46 per cent samples were found to contain residues of locally applied pesticides. However, in all these fruit samples, the residues were found to be below the prescribed MRL values," Minister of State for Agriculture Hukumdeo Narayan Yadav told Rajya Sabha in a written reply.

On being asked about kharif crop estimates this year, he said as per first advanced estimates, total food grain output is likely at 108.45 million tonnes, total oilseed at 15.08 million tonnes, cotton at 13.12 million bales and sugarcane at 261.37 million tonnes.

KOCHI: A Kerala based company has come out with an organic bio fresh fruit and vegetable cleanser, which they claim, is totally non-toxic and takes off any kind of pesticides, chemicals, wax coating, handling contaminants or surface grime and germs from fruits and vegetables.

ORGANIC BIO FRESH FRUITAND VEGETABLE CLEANSER

Almost all vegetables and fruits available in the market are sprayed with highly toxic pesticides and insecticides.

Moreover, when transported from the farm to marketplace they go through highly unhygienic handling, shipping and storage.

The pesticides and other agricultural chemicals are usually designed to be waterproof so that rain and irrigation do not wash them off.

BIO FRESH (Fruit and Vegetable cleanser)•Organic concept to rescue our generation from deadly PESTICIDES.•One can wash out all chemicals and pesticides from fruits & vegetables washingwith diluted BIO FRESH. •No harm it is organic.

Digital Ultrasonic Cleanser

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVESCommercial Fruit and Vegetable Washer SXQ330-PA

Commercial Fruit and Vegetable Washer SXQ150-PA

•Food materials suppliers and distributing companies •Big restaurants •Disinfection and deodorization•Disinfection of bacteria •Removing pesticide •Deodorization of smell

•Ozone disinfection washer for fruit and vegetable •Feeding facilities for students and other groups •Dining halls in hospitals and public institutions •Big restaurants