🌼Improves Health of Soil: Treating soil with harsh pesticides & chemicals leads to the soil not being able to thrive independently, which is why natural cultivation practices are much better. According to Dr Elaine Ingham, one teaspoon of compost-rich organic soil may host as many as 600 million to 1 billion helpful bacteria from 15,000 species. On the flip side, one teaspoon of soil treated with chemicals may carry as few as 100 beneficial bacteria.
🌼Combats Soil Erosion: Erosion issues have significant repercussions are extremely major – they end up affecting the land, food supply and humans. And according to some studies, organic fields feature eight more inches of topsoil than their chemically treated counterparts and have just one-third of the erosion loss.
🌼Water Conservation & Health: A significant threat to rivers is the pollution caused by runoff from non-organic farming, such as harmful pesticides, toxic fertilizers, and animal waste. Organic farming helps keep water bodies clean by avoiding that polluted runoff. It even helps conserve water; for instance, cotton requires a lot of irrigation and excessive water consumption when grown conventionally. If grown organically, however, cotton needs much less irrigation, thus saving water.
🌼Promotion of Biodiversity: Organic farming reduces harmful chemical pesticides and fertilizers, which wash off the significant flora and fauna. So, plants, animals, insects, and birds survive and naturally thrive in their natural environment, thus, maintaining the ecological balance.
🌼Preserves Animal Health & Welfare: As mentioned in the previous point, organic farming helps keep the natural habitat, thus encouraging animals to live happily on the farmlands. Additionally, animals living on organic farms are exposed to clean, chemical-free grazing that keeps them naturally healthy and resistant to illness.
🌼Fights Against Global Warming: The Rodale Institute Farming Systems Trial, which people’s health has been running since 1981, has shown that a healthy organic agricultural system can reduce carbon dioxide levels in the air and aid in slowing down climate change.
🌼Discourages Algal Blooms: Algal blooms result in adverse effects on people’s health and marine animals & organisms. These also negatively affect the recreational & tourism industries, involving the local & regional economies. One of the primary reasons that contribute to the growth of algal blooms (that are human-based) is the runoff from petroleum-based fertilizers that are often used in conventional farming. By relying on organic agriculture, the growth of algal blooms can be thus heavily reduced.
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