Organic farming By Allah Dad Khan DG Agri Extension KPK Province Peshawar

1. A Report By:
Allah Dad Khan

2. What is Organic Farming?
• Organic farming is
the production of
crops and livestock
without the use of
synthetic chemicals
and in-organic
fertilizers.
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3. What is conventional/ modern agriculture?
• Modern agriculture uses pesticides, herbicides, fungicides,
rodenticides and harmful chemicals to produce the food we eat.
• The food produced from conventional agriculture is harmful to
human health because they contain residues of chemicals and in-
organic fertilizers.
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4. • Organic agriculture is healthy for the farmers
who produces our foods to the environment
because it avoids poisonous chemicals for
consumers, who eat the organic food.
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5. Organic Farming creates “Living Soil”
• Full of life with microorganism, fungi, worms
and termites.
• Very rich in macro and micro elements, trace
elements, and vital energy
• Very rich in organic matter
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6. Modern Chemical Farming creates “Dead Soil”
• Acidic soils with few microorganisms
• Lacking in micro elements, trace elements,
poor vitality
• Almost O organic matter
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7. What are the harmful effects of chemical fertilizers,
pesticides, herbicides, rodenticides, suicide?
• In August 2000, a research team in Holland
published findings which showed that men
whose jobs gave them a high exposure to
pesticides had significantly lower sperm
counts.
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8. • Couple of years earlier, a Danish study found
that a sample of organic farmers had sperm
counts 50% higher than the national average.
• The Economic and Social Research Council,
USDA, published a report in April 2000 saying
that a combination of high tech crops,
pollution and soil erosion are affecting the
intelligence of millions of people.
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9. • High yielding rice and wheat, the so called “green
revolution crops” developed in Los Baños, the
Philippines, are now named as one of the causes of
brain damage especially impaired intellect in poor or
third world countries.
• These crops, produced under modern agriculture
techniques using large doses of pesticides, herbicides,
and fertilizers are being blamed for intelligence
problems because they do not contain essential brain
nutrients such as iodine, iron and vitamin A.
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10. • A decrease in brain size has been reported among poor
communities in Brazil over 30 years.
• “We evolved bigger brains at the cost of a smaller
digestive system requiring high quality food” says the
report.
• “If food supplies become poor quality or contaminated.
This might favor humans with a bigger gut or larger
digestive system but with a resultantly smaller brain.”
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11. • This phenomenon has forced the Philippine
government to make laws, RA 8976, the “Food
Fortification Law” requiring all rice, sugar,
cooking oil and flour sold in the market to be
fortified with iron in the form of ferrous
sulfate – a synthetic micronutrient derived
from scrap iron.
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12. • According to Hawley’s Condensed Chemical
Dictionary, one hazard of ingesting large
amount of ferrous sulfate is that it causes
“stomach disorders.”
• A Stanford University study of 496 patients
newly diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease
suggests that in-home use of pesticides
increases the rich of the neurological disorder
by 70%.
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13. • A study at Emory University in Atlanta,
confirmed a connection between Parkinson’s
disease and pesticides after laboratory rats
developed Parkinson’s like symptoms upon
prolonged exposure to the organic pesticide
rotenone. (Neurology Reviews, August 2000;
Nature Neuroscience, December 2000.)
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14. • For many years, pesticides were studied
mainly to determine their potential to
cause cancer. Recently, researchers at
Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New
York has found that the most widely used
class of indoor insecticides is a probable
hormone disrupter that may interfered
with reproductive functions and possibly
contribute to cancer.
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15. • Thousands of people in Florida have
reported suffering health problems
following aerial spraying of the insecticide
Malathion against Mediterranean fruit flies
attacking food crops. The victims have filed
a class-action have sent against Cheminova
Inc. the manufacturer of Malathion, which
is related to the nerve gases used in World
War II.
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16. • Modern agriculture or Chemical farming
has damaged our environment by
contaminating our rivers, lakes, drinking
water and clouds forming rain. These
poisonous chemicals has killed not only
insects but also fish, birds, useful small
animals, microorganisms and some plants.
These agricultural chemicals is killing
humans too.
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17. • Without microorganisms, the soil, will be
lacking in other micronutrients needed by
the body such as calcium, magnesium, iron,
zinc, cooper, selinium, manganese, vit. C,
vit. A, vit. B6, Folecin, vit. E, potassium, etc.
• There are 23 elements needed for human
health that come from the soil.
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18. • Plants convert the 23 elements, along with
carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen into food
nutrients – amino acids, carbohydrates,
essential fats, vitamins, minerals, enzymes,
and fiber.
• A deficiency or absence of even one
element produces deficient food, which can
result in health problems in the body.
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19. • Dr. Albrecht and Dr. Allison of Missouri
University with the funding by the
International Harvester Company
conducted experiments on animals using
plants grown in soil deficient in the 23
elements especially the trace elements.
• The food produced on this soil was also
deficient in the trace elements or nutrients.
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20. • The cattle fed with plants grown in poor soil developed
certain deficiency diseases. The blood of these sick
cattle was analyzed and was found deficient in trace
elements.
• The missing trace elements was supplied or added to
the soil and then the animals were fed with food grown
on such enriched soil. The cattle recovered from their
fever and disease.
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21. • Dr. George H. Earp-Thomas wrote in 1950 his
discoveries on the relationship between poor
soil and human and animal diseases.
• He concluded that “There is only one disease,
and that is MALNUTRITION.”
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22. • The body cells will die, “atrophy away” if not supplied with
constant nourishments. Many soils can no longer produce
foods adequately supplied with all the essential factors. The
more you eat of deficient food, regardless of your health, the
more you hasten your decline – if the trace elements are
lacking.
• Such symptoms fill medical books with fancy names, but here is
one name which covers practically all of them: MALNUTRITION.
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23. • Drs. Albrecht-Allison conducted experiments
and with organic farming produced an organic
food that would meet the needs of the medical
profession, that would have all of or more than
the 32 factors and 23 elements well
proportioned for their use.
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24. • The organic food produced from organic crops
was richer in protein than meat, carried all the
needed amino acids, a full and liberal supply
of vitamins A, C, K, the B complex, some E, F,
G and P.
• The trace minerals iron, copper, zinc, calcium,
phosphorus, cobalt, the factors Inositol, folic
aid, Choline – all essential for good health.
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25. • With the discovery of the health benefits derived
from rich sail coming from organic farming, the
nature doctor, or now called naturopathic doctors,
are able to supply proper nutrition to sick persons
and are able to heal their diseases, by giving
organically grown foods.
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26. • Organic Agriculture do not use pesticides. Because of
this, the food produced are now called “Power
Charged” foods. Organic foods contain more phyto-
chemicals that are called “Medicinal Foods.”
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• Scientists from the Department of Food Science and
Technology of the University of California-Davis
discovered that fruits and vegetables grown organically
can reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer and other
diseases. (Journal of Food Chem. 57(5), 2003).

27. • According to these scientists, crops grown organically contain
more polyphenolics than conventional crops possibly because
they are not sprayed with any pesticides.
• These results showed that berries and corn grown organically
contained up to 58 percent more polyphenolics, strawberries,
19% more, blackberries, 58% more and all of them have higher
content of ascorbic acid (Vit C) and other antioxidants,
flavonoids and bioflavonoids.
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28. • Livestock like chicken, pigs and cattle, grown in chemical-
industrial animal farming systems are also sources of chemicals
harmful to health.
• The animals grown like sardines in unhealthy animal farms are
fed and injected with synthetic chemicals to force them to grow
fast and survive the pathogenic microorganisms that abounds.
These are antibiotics, growth hormones, steroids, synthetic
vitamins and minerals.
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29. • When humans eat these animals, they also ingest these
synthetic chemicals and whatever disease these animals have.
• Because meat produced in animal farms are too unhealthy, the
Harvard Medical School in its newly constructed Food Pyramid
or Dietary Guide warned that meat should be taken in small
quantities, and that Red Meat should be taken only
occasionally. (Paminsan-minsasn lang)
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30. Today, Oncologists from the Harvard Medical School
recommend to cancer patients to:
• Change lifestyle
• Become vegetarians or
avoid red meat
• Eat lots of organic food
• Avoid eating at FAST
FOOD Restaurant like
McDonalds
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31. • Because the foods we eat today lack
nutritional content, children and adults, no
matter how they eat are “starved” and tend
to eat more then necessary, resulting into:
obesity, diabetes, cardio-vascular and heart
diseases, and chronic and degenerative
diseases including Parkinson’s.
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32. The best way to Health is by eating only Organic
Food.
• You can avoid disease by eating only
“Certified Organic” food.
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• The Organic Producers Trade Association, OPTA is
also an accredited Organic Certification Agency by
the Department of Agriculture. OPTA-COP
performs Organic Farm Inspection and
Certifications.

33. Interested farmers and food producers who want to
learn Organic Farming and Organic Food Processing
can contact OPTA, Philippines at:
• 21 Makaturing Street, Bgy. Manresa,
Quezon City, Philippines 1115
Tel. (632) 363-6816
Fax. (632) 415-3636
Cellphone: 0919-7381457
E-mail: opta@edsamail.com.ph
website: www.optaphil.com
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