• DOI:10.5772/INTECHOPEN.84069
• Corpus ID: 54634834

Environmental Benefits of Organic Farming

@inproceedings{Nejadkoorki2012EnvironmentalBO,
  title={Environmental Benefits of Organic Farming},
  author={Farhad Nejadkoorki},
  year={2012}
}

• F. Nejadkoorki
• Published 10 September 2012
• Environmental Science

Predictions of human population and its requirements to generate new farmlands are unavoidable. On the other hand there have been significant concerns over threats of the agriculture expansion over the next 50 years globally. This is due to public concerns on quality of agricultural products and environmental concerns. Organic farming is kind of agricultural that provide the consumers, with fresh, tasty and reliable food while regarding natural life-cycle systems. There are tremendous attentions in organic farming and foods nowadays both in developed and developing countries. In addition to health benefits of organic products for consumers, there are vital environmental benefits for the earth. An organic farming keeps biodiversity and reduce environmental pollutions such air, water. And soil. This paper investigates and highlights these environmental concerns.