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Organic Farming for Sustainable Food and Nutrition with Rural Empowerment

Sangeeta Ahuja , Sangeeta Ahuja

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International Journal of Food, Nutrition & Dietetics 7(1):p 5-10, . | DOI: DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/ijfnd.2322.0775.7119.1
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Sangeeta Ahuja. Organic Farming for Sustainable Food and Nutrition with Rural Empowerment. Int J Food Nutr Diet. 2019;7(1): 5-10.

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The organic food is grown or raised can have a major impact on the mental and emotional health as well as the environment. Organic foods often have more beneficial nutrients, such as antioxidants, than their conventionallygrown counterparts and people with allergies to foods, chemicals, or preservatives often find their symptoms lessen or go away when they eat only organic foods. There is a direct mapping of nutrition management and Agriculture. Agriculture plays a very important role for the growth and development of any country. Agriculture is the sedentary human civilization whereas farming created food surpluses that enabled to live in cities. The Organic farming provides an opportunity to achieve sustainable agriculture that has grown out of the conscious efforts contributing towards rural development and livelihoods to farmers without destroying the natural resource basis. This has also benefited in the way as it reduces the environmental impacts of conventional agriculture and increase productivity in small farmers’ land holdings and the costly external inputs, and guarantees price premiums for organic products. The scientific and technological inputs have been major drivers of growth and development in agriculture and allied sectors that have enabled us to achieve self-reliant food security with a reasonable degree of resilience even in times of natural calamities, in recent years. In the present times, agricultural development is faced with several challenges relating to state of natural resources, climatechange,fragmentation and diversion ofagricultural land to non-agricultural uses, factor productivity and global trade. There is an urgent need to identify the issues of research and strategies for organic research in agri-horticultural sector, integrated farming systems, resource bases and agroecological zones. Decision support systems, expert systems and statistical methodologies/ techniques have to be developed in the field of organic farming in order to increase the agricultural production of the country.

Keywords: Small and marginal farmers; Sustainable livelihoods; Decision support system; Nutrition.

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