Organic farming is taking the world by a storm. But so is climate change. Climate change is real and has just begun to show its evil effects. Nature begins to resort to wild ways to restore equilibrium when humans distort and disrupt the equilibrium artificially. The occurrence of hurricanes, the melting of glaciers, the submerging of tiny islands and the global warming that we are facing, are all direct and indirect outcomes of playing havoc with nature. As such organic farming may be the much needed solution to climate change. The statement may be subversive if not paradoxical that traditional farming does leas to climate change and consumers who purchase traditionally cultivated food products unknowingly promote climate change. Read on to know the full story.

Traditional farming relies on the excess use of soil and water. Traditionally grown crops rely on the over usage of soil and water because the usage of fertilizers, pesticides and chemicals that are used for the control of rodents, serpents and weeds absorb much water. More over the usage of these chemical reagents changes the texture of the soil and sucks water to a greater extent in comparison to organic farming. Organic farming on the other hand relies on natural ways of crop cultivation where the focus is on the reduction of soil and water usage. More over organic farming aims to produce better crops not more crops. Thus the nutritional value of the organic food products fares better in comparison to traditionally grown food products. Lesser absorption of water due to completely natural pest, weed and rodent control methods lead to water positivity. Yet again, the production of fertilizers itself involves the usage of electricity and carbon emissions. A close look at the social audit reports on carbon footprints of fertilizer and pesticide producing firms shall effectively give us the net carbon negativity and water negativity. The sum total of these effects is a key metric in the assessment and control of climate change. Organic farming does not use chemical reagents of any kind and hence is free from carbon negativity and water negativity.



