In combination with various cultural methods, healthy crops are produced which have natural resistance to pests and diseases. This system is sustainable - it can continue indefinitely, with vast savings to the national economy and improvement in national health. Organic farming is simply not doing away with chemicals. It means replacing them. Based on mixed farming principles, it promotes self- sufficiency in natural fertilizer, animal feeds and all needed inputs.
Plants get their food from humus, the end results of the decay or organic matter.
They work for us by releasing minerals from soil particles as needed by the plants. Thus , the plant is fed indirectly, not directly as with soluble chemicals fertilizers . The slogan of organic farming is ' feed the soil, not the crop '. This is the important difference between organic and conventional farming. We replace factory workers and fossil fuels by the energy of soil life which is already available- 25 tons in every hectare of fertile soil.