Organic farming is a method of farming that focuses on biodiversity, natural cycles, and healthy inputs rather than destructive ones. It uses organic fertilisers including compost manure, green manure, and bone meal. It has resulted in a profitable and rapidly increasing Organic Food Industry. Its goal, unlike other farming methods, is not only to increase yield and improve the economy. The total production of major organic commodities produced and exported during the 2020-21 fiscal year was 3.2 million MT, which included oil seeds, fibre, sugar, cereals, spices and condiments, pulses, medicinal plant products, fresh fruits and vegetables, tea, coffee, flowers, dry fruits, fodder, on farm processed food, tuber products, and others. The Government of India announced a plan and a form of organic certification, Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY), in 2015, with the goal of supporting and promoting organic farming and therefore improving soil health. Continuing advancements in organic farming led to Sikkim becoming India's first organic state in 2016. As a result, organic farming and agriculture should be viewed as the sole path to a more sustainable food future in order to address the existing environmental consequences and public health challenges.
Organic farming, APEDA, Sustainability, Ecological, Profitability
Anonymous. 2020. Organic Agriculture Worldwide: Current Statistics. www.fibl.org.
Bose S. 2016. National Program for Organic Production. www.apeda.gov.in
FAO. 2021. Organic Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome.
GOI, (Government of India). 2021. Economic Survey 2020-21. Ministry of Finance, Economic Division, New Delhi, India.
