Agriculture and Horticulture

Organic Farming

Agriculture conference focusses on Organic Farming it is a method of crop and livestock production that involves much more than choosing not to use pesticides, fertilizers, genetically modified organisms, antibiotics and growth hormones. Organic Farming can be explained as agriculture farming because it followed techniques like crop rotation, green manure, biological pest control. so organic agriculture is enforced in many nations is because it minimizes the use of various harmful chemicals that have hazardous effects on crops in the field Organic farming is developing rapidly. According to the latest survey on organic farming, almost 3.4million hectares are managed organically by more than 700,000 farmers. In 2001 to 2011 this demand has increased in organically managed farmland to 8.9% per annum.  As of 2011, approximately 37,000,000 hectares (91,000,000 acres) worldwide were farmed organically, representing approximately 0.9 percent of total world farmland. Agriculture conference provides an opportunity to researchers and scientists to explore the advanced and latest research developments in the field of Organic farming.