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    Organic farming relies on techniques like crop rotation, green manure, compost, and biological pest control instead of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. It aims to be sustainable, independent, and promote health and safety. Organic methods are internationally regulated based on standards set in 1972. The USDA defines organic agriculture as an ecological system that enhances biodiversity and soil health using minimal off-farm inputs and management practices.

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    Organic farming is a form of agriculture that relies on techniques such as crop rotation, green manure, compost, and biological

    pest control. Depending on whose definition is used, organic farming uses fertilizers and pesticides (which include herbicides, insecticides and fungicides) if they are considered natural (such as bone meal from animals or pyrethrin from flowers), but it excludes or strictly limits the use of various methods (including synthetic petrochemical fertilizers and pesticides; plant growth regulators such as hormones; antibiotic use in livestock; genetically modified organisms;
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    human sewage sludge; and nanomaterials. ) for reasons

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    including sustainability, openness, independence, health, and safety. Organic agricultural methods are internationally regulated and legally enforced by many nations, based in large part on the standards set by theInternational Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM), an international umbrella organization for organic farming organizations established in 1972. Organic Standards Board (NOSB) definition as of April 1995 is: Organic agriculture is an ecological production management system that promotes and enhances biodiversity, biological cycles and soil biological activity. It is based on minimal use of off-farm inputs and on management practices that restore, maintain and enhance ecological harmony."
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    The USDA National

    Traditional farming (of many kinds) was the original type of agriculture, and has been practiced for thousands of years. Forest gardening, a traditional food production system which dates fromprehistoric times, is thought to be the world's oldest and most resilient agroecosystem.
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    Artificial fertilizers had been created during the 18th century, initially with superphosphates and then ammonia-based fertilizers mass-produced using the Haber-Bosch process developed during World War I. These early fertilizers were cheap, powerful, and easy to transport in bulk. Similar advances occurred in chemical pesticides in the 1940s, leading to the decade being referred to as the 'pesticide era'.
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    But these new agricultural techniques, while beneficial

    in the short term, had serious longer term side effects such as soil compaction, erosion, and declines in overall soil [10]:10 fertility, along with health concerns about toxic chemicals entering the food supply. Soil biology scientists began in the late 1800s and early 1900's to develop theories on how new advancements in biological science could be used in agriculture as a way to remedy these side effects, while still maintaining higher production. In Central Europe Rudolf Steiner, whose Lectures on Agriculture were published in 1925.
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    created biodynamic agriculture, an early version of what we now call organic agriculture.

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    The

    system was based on Steiner's philosophy of anthroposophy rather than on a solid grasp of science.

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    In the late 1930s and early 1940s Sir Albert Howard and his wife Gabrielle Howard, both accomplished botanists, developed organic agriculture. The Howards were influenced by their experiences with traditional farming methods in India, biodynamic, and their formal scientific education. more natural methods.
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    Sir Albert Howard is widely considered to be the "father of

    organic farming", because he was the first to apply scientific knowledge and principles to these various traditional and In the United States another founder of organic agriculture was J.I. Rodale. In the 1940s he founded both a working organic farm for trials and experimentation, The Rodale Institute, and founded the Rodale Press to teach and advocate organic to the wider public. Further work was done by Lady Eve Balfour in the United Kingdom, and many others across the world. Increasing environmental awareness in the general population

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