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Natrual Farming : an alternative to organic farming

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            Now days if we think of anything natural first things that comes to our mind is that it would be a slow process. Also it may have less output than other artificial variants. But its not necessarily true.  Natural process are infact more robust. One of strong argument in favor would be that it has evolved over millions of years and has survived various changes and catastrophes.  Same applies for farming s well.           Natural farming tries to use of all positive aspects of nature. For e.g. farmers use ploughing to soften soil. This enables roots to grow and spread easily. In natural farming earthworms and microbes available in soil do this work. Natural environment is created for them. Microbes and earth worms dwell in dark and humid climate. They need organic material as their feed. With this understanding in natural farming organic mulching is spread over soil. With mulching its block light from reaching soil surface. Also it gets ready organic as feed in form of mulch.

Waste Management

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      Attitude of throwing away waste has created its pile up. These pileup's run risk of competing with sky scrapers.  Above statement is a exaggeration for now but can become reality if not handled with care. Lets try to understand major type of urban waste generated in most of the households This classification and grouping is important as then we can address them together.  For e.g. 1. Recyclables: They can be segregated and sold to scrap dealers. Which intern would be re-cycled also will generate some revenue. Medical solid waste has to be handled by experts so has to be sent to Medical waste treatment plants. Clothes can be either donated to NGO's or needy individuals.  2. Organic waste: House hold organic waste can can decomposed into manure. With improvement of Farming related processes there are many ways in which organic waste can be converted to manure. One of the popular method is Vermicomposting. This process is natural process with artificial setup.  This manure c