Recent approaches in farming require establishment of organic farming as main approach in agriculture. Its necessory for environment and human being.

1. ORGANIC FARMING

2.  Organic farming system in India is being followed from ancient time.
 This method of farming system aimed at cultivating the land and raising crops so, as
to keep the soil alive and in good health.
 Use of organic wastes (crop, animal and farm wastes, aquatic wastes) and other
biological materials along with beneficial microbes (biofertilizers).
 Increased sustainable production in an eco friendly pollution free environment.
 Avoids or largely excludes the use of synthetic inputs (such as fertilizers, pesticides,
hormones, feed additives etc)

4.  Why its necessary to adopt Organic Farming and Why it is the Need of the Hour?
Organic farming emphasizes on achieving good crop yields without harming the
natural environment or the people who live and work in it.
 It relies on organic or natural fertilizers like:
 Compost Manure
 Green Manure
 Vermicompost
 Also emphasis on use of techniques like:
 Crop Rotation
 Companion Planting
Biological Pest Control, Mixed Cropping and Nurturing Insect Predators are
encouraged in organic farming.
Lord Walter James Northbourne coined the term, “Organic Farming” in his book,
“Look to the Land” which was published in 1940’s.

6. "Sikkim Organic Mission" an ingenious flagship project of Government
of Sikkim was introduced to millions of Indian viewers through ‘Satyamev Jayate’,
a popular talk show hosted by Aamir Khan in 2012.
Organic Mission of Sikkim remains a talking point in the world increasingly
concerned about use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers in agricultural
products. The mission wants to convert Sikkim into a totally Organic State by
2015.
Cuba would always been known as the first in the world to have adopted such
large-scale organic farming (However, Cuba resorted to such farming practices as
a compulsion due to longstanding trade embargo with other nations).
The State remains a foremost democratic model in the world on organic farming
where it voluntarily adopted to go organic.
In January 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared Sikkim as India’s first,
fully organic state.

7. SIKKIM-Why in the News?
 India’s first 100% organic state Sikkim has won the ‘Oscar for best policies’,
conferred by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) for the world’s best
policies promoting agro-ecological and sustainable food systems.
 Sikkim beats 51 nominations from 25 different countries of the world to win the
Future Policy Award 2018.
 The Chief Minister of Sikkim Pawan Kumar Chamling received the award from the
Deputy Director of UN’s FAO Maria Helena Semedo in Rome on October 15th.
 In 2003, Sikkim became the first state in India to officially announce the adoption
of organic farming to ensure long-term sustenance of soil fertility, protection of
environment and ecology, healthy living and decreasing the risk of health
ailments.
 It also stopped imports of chemical fertilizers in the State, and since then, the
cultivable land in Sikkim is practically organic.
 The Future Policy Award recognised the state’s leadership and politics to lead by
example.

8. Scope and Future of Organic Farming With
Sustainable Development
• Maintains and improves the natural balance of the environment.
• Mutually beneficial interaction of legitimate corporate and economic interests,
government and polity interests, and civil society and culture interests.
• Multifaceted notion with at least four components. In general, there are four key
pillars (dimensions) to sustainable development: social, economic, environmental,
and institutional.

10. Scope of Organic farming in India:
Organic food is in high demand with rising domestic market.
Organic farming not only address quality and sustainability concerns, but
also ensures a debt-free future, with increasing awareness about the
safety and quality of food, long-term sustainability of the system, and
accumulating evidence of being equally productive.
 Organic farming is also a environmentally beneficial production strategy that
benefits small-scale farmers in particular.
 Organic farming is appropriate for small farmers in developing countries like
India.
 Organic agriculture helps to poverty reduction and food security through a
variety of factors
 Increasing yields in locations with low inputs
 Biodiversity and natural resources conservation on the farm and in the
surrounding environment;
 Increasing revenue and/or lowering costs;
 Creating food that is both safe and diverse;
 Having a long-term sustainability.
 Up to now, Genetically Modification has mostly been about ensuring that crops are
resistant to pests, like Bt Cotton, for instance. But organic farming promises the same
benefits without tweaking genes. "This method of farming creates an ecological balance,
so that the soil is fertile and the plant is healthy.”

11. Organic Farmers and Farms in Rajasthan
RAJASTHAN ORGANIC FARMERS ASSOCIATION –ROFA
Although organic farmers have been meeting regularly and promoting organic
techniques in Rajasthan for the past four years, ROFA an official body was
constituted on Jan 10, 2009 in Jhodpur. Presently it has 21 members from
across the state. The activities of the group is being coordinated by Jagrati
Sansthan, Jhodpur.
 Large numbers of farmers have opted for a way of cultivation that do not
utilize chemical pesticides, and most importantly, uses less water in a
water-starved state. The dramatic results are nowhere more visible in
Rajasthan's Shekhawati belt.
 Much of the transformation has been due to the work of the M R Morarka-
GDC Rural Research Foundation, started in Jhunjhunu over a decade ago.
 Even when rainfall is 60% of normal, 50% farm output is possible. Using herbal
pesticides instead of chemical, water usage is cut back by at least 40%.
 The fact that pesticides are out of bounds in organic farming techniques is
another reason the process requires less water. Use of chemical pesticides
such as urea means that plants have to be watered more often, but organic
farming which uses only herbal pesticides cuts back on at least 40 percent of
the water usage.

12. Organic Farming in Rajasthan
 Rajasthan State Organic Certification Agency (RSOCA) is an integral part of
Rajasthan State Seed & Organic Certification Agency (RSSOCA) working as
an independent and separate cell. This is an autonomous organization
established in year 2005 by Gazette Notification of Government of Rajasthan.
 It functions under the State Government as per the National Programme for
Organic Production (NPOP), India and National Organic Program (NOP-
USDA).
 RSOCA has been accredited by the Agricultural and Processed Food Product
Export Development Authority (APEDA), Ministry of Commerce & Industry,
Government of India, New Delhi, for NPOP (National Programme for Organic
Production) in October, 2007 and for NOP (National Organic Programme) in
July 2015.

16. Conclusion
Organic farming is popular in India, and it is ranked ninth among the top ten
countries with the most organic land. In India, there are over 600,000 organic
farmers.
Organic farming has advantages for both developed countries (environmental
protection, biodiversity enhancement, reduced energy use and CO2 emissions) and
developing countries like India (sustainable resource use, increased crop yields
without over-reliance on expensive external inputs, environment and biodiversity
protection, and so on). So it is future promising of the world.