Organic Farming for Sustainable Agricultural Production

IIT Kharagpur, , Prof. Prof. Dilip Kumar Swain

Updated On 02 Feb, 19

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Lecture 37: Lecture 37 : Organic Standard

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Week 1 :  Organic Farming: Concepts and principles of organic farming
Week 2 : Key indicators of sustainable agriculture, organic farming and climate change
Week 3 : Input management; compost production, vermicomposting, Compost quality, Compost utilization and marketing
Week 4 :  Organic crop management: field crops, horticulture and plantation crops
Week 5 :  Plant protection measures, biopesticides, natural predators, cultural practice
Week 6 :  Rotation design for organic system,  Transition to organic agriculture, farming system
Week 7 :  Quality analysis of organic foods, Antioxidants and their natural source, organic food and human health
Week 8 : Standards of organic food and marketing