COOP buying of supplies will organized and will save costs. COOP marketing on the neighbor islands is also possible with a coop structure other markets could include Canada and Japan. Organic matter is the key word and management of decay systems of the soil is the method used. Crop rotation with legume crops and use of livestock systems and composted manure are used, instead of soluble chemical salts used as if the soil were a hydroponic media instead of a living eco-system. The raw materials used in a processed organic product must be from a certified organic source.
Agriculture is nothing more than the management of biological processes to our benefit.
Biological agriculture merely tunes in to those processes. It utilizes the vast field of biological sciences. Wasteful reliance on once cheap NPK fertilizer has lulled farmers in to a dependency which leads to depleted soils and contaminated water. Efforts to erradicate pests often are emotional decisions that never succeed. Indeed, many times pest erradication efforts damage sensitve predator-prey relationships on the farm and create far more serious outbreaks with a subsequent dependence on chemical methods.