{"id":872,"date":"2023-06-13T13:33:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T13:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dummy.xtemos.com\/woodmart2\/plants-elementor\/?p=872"},"modified":"2025-04-30T12:49:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T12:49:43","slug":"flower-arrangement-tips-tricks-from-floral-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seniorseeds.in\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"Principles and Standards of Organic Farming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>ORGANIC FARMING<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Organic farming prohibits the use of synthetic agro-chemicals and relies on crop<br>rotations, crop residues, animal manures, composts, legumes, green manures and on-<br>farm wastes to maintain the soil productivity and to supply plant nutrients to the crops.<br>Disease and insect-pest management is done by using biopesticides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Basic organic standards<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Conversion from chemical to organic farming requires a three year conversion<br>period during which all the practices should be organic.<br>\u2022A buffer zone must be created around the organic field to avoid any contamination<br>or run off from the adjoining chemical fields.<br>\u2022Seed should be from the organic produce and should not be treated with any<br>chemical. Genetically modified (GM) crops are not allowed. The cultural practices<br>of organic crops like seed rate, sowing time and spacing may be same as that of<br>conventional crops, if otherwise not mentioned.<br>\u2022Herbicides should not be used for weed control and weeds should be managed by<br>cultural practices\/methods and need based weedings.<br>\u2022Chemical fertilizers, pesticides and growth regulators\u00a0are\u00a0prohibited.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORGANIC FARMING Organic farming prohibits the use of synthetic agro-chemicals and relies on croprotations, crop residues, animal manures, composts, legumes,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seniorseeds.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-51.jpg?fit=300%2C212&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seniorseeds.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seniorseeds.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seniorseeds.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seniorseeds.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seniorseeds.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seniorseeds.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seniorseeds.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seniorseeds.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seniorseeds.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seniorseeds.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}