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Organic agriculture - Correct Answers ✅is a food
production system that is an alternative to conventional
agriculture
Conventional agriculture - Correct Answers ✅uses
industrialized, modern methods such as synthetically
produced chemicals and transgenic crops.
organic industry - Correct Answers ✅is "consumer driven"
and us related to consumer demand for products that are
considered healthy and pesticide free.
organic logo - Correct Answers ✅provides consumers with
verification that the food they purchase has been produced
and processed using acceptable organic practices.
Growers - Correct Answers ✅must develop and adhere to
an "organic systems plan.•Manage their soil resources
responsibly•Follow rules that include no synthetic fertilizers
or pesticides, antibiotics or genetically engineered seeds or
plants•Use a diverse crop rotation
Organic crop producers - Correct Answers ✅depend on and
perform more labor and rely on cultural practices, mechanical
weed control and green manures for crop production.
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Green manure crops - Correct Answers ✅are fast growing
crop plants that are incorporated into the soil while still
vegetative, with the intent of improving nutrients and soil
quality
Organic food sales - Correct Answers ✅have increased
nearly 500% between 2000 and 2010and were worth nearly
$25 billion in 2010.
Organic Food Production Act of 1990 - Correct Answers
✅this is the act that governs the management the organic
production system.
National Organic Program (NOP) - Correct Answers ✅the
federal program that regulates organic agriculture in the U.S.
Some of the basic requirements for organic certification are -
Correct Answers ✅3 years with no application of prohibited
materials (synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, or genetically
modified organisms [GMOs] prior to harvest of the first
certified organic crop•Implementation of an organic system
plan•Use of only natural inputs and approved synthetic
substances on the NOP list (manure, compost, kelp meal or
other aquatic plant extracts, elemental sulfur, naturally
occurring humicacids, magnesium sulfate, soluble boron,
liquid fish products, naturally occurring lime, rock
phosphates, blood meal, soybean meal, bone meal, alfalfa
hay meal, corn gluten)