Organic farming is a production sys

Organic farming is a production system, which excludes the use of synthetically compounded fertilizers, pesticides and growth regulators. Lt relies on organic manures produced from farm wastes and other biomass. It also encompasses a conglomeration of various techniques and practices like intercropping, mulching, cover cropping, trap cropping etc. Organic farming also employs various biological pest control methods, which eliminates the use of synthetic chemicals even at the storage levels. A thorough understanding of agro ecological parameters of the locality is required to make organic farming a sustainable and feasible production system. Eventually, this helps to adopt the locally suitable methodologies with a proper and appropriate combination of various resources available on the farm. Being a holistic production management system, organic farming will promote "and enhance environmental quality including biogeochemical cycles and soil floral and faunal activities. The stress has to be on improving the on-farm management rather than off-farm external inputs.