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What is organic farming and what does crop rotation consist of?

What is ecological agriculture

Organic farming is an agricultural process that promotes a healthy and environmentally friendly cultivation taking advantage of the environment's own resources for its cultivation, and naturally obtaining foods that They retain all their flavor and nutrients.

This type of cultivation is free of chemical substances harmful to the body and the environment.

The fundamental basis of this type of agriculture is crop rotation.. Your goal is maintain biodiversity (plants, insects, etc…) to take advantage of the differences that crops have in the rate of absorption of nutrients from the substrate. Although all crops need more or less the same nutrients to thrive, they do not always need the same amount.

Good crop nutrition causes plants to grow strong, produce more and have greater resistance to diseases or pests. All this naturally.
In the event that a pest attacks a crop, when rotating, it will most likely disappear because it does not adapt to its new environment.

Rotation It also improves humus reserves in the soil, which makes the soil healthy and stimulates the activity of beneficial microorganisms that live in the substrate.

To carry out crop rotation, the most important thing is design the rotation that will be carried out in the garden. They are duration should be three to four years and must be created cultivation groups (by type of use, by crop family or by nutrient requirements and contributions) and divide the garden into as many parts as there are groups.

Inside the garden, there may be fixed cultivation groups, which are not part of the rotation because they grow differently than the others or because they are neutral crops.

From Organic sausages Luis Gil, We promote both livestock farming and organic farming. And you, did you know what this type of crops consists of? And the rotation groups?

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