How to motivate farmers to go organic?

If more home owners and tenants in apartments would start growing organically so that they could eat the healthy organic foods, they woud see and taste the big differences in organic as opposed to conventional foods. Then people would start to ask for more organically farmed foods. Not only do organically grown foods taste better, they are better for you because they have not been sprayed with poisons like conventional foods. These poisons will get into your body and scientist do not try to tell those in charge about it or those in charge do not make laws to protect the people. They are making money from the chemical companies to keep the convential farming going.

have you thought of selling your organically grown farm products through the internet? there are a lot of health conscious communities out there who are on the look out for these kinds of products and only through the internet will these farmers be able to tap into this vast market. creating a website for your organically grown farm produce will dramatically widen the farmers market range and will also increase their income. weird idea right?:)

The best and most drastic way to force people to go organic is to reduce their sales of non organic foods, by only buying organic food - this is difficult as it is much more expensive then normally grown food and there is less to choose from - you create a demand that has to be met. The best is to show how they can make a bigger profit by using organic systems by reduction in artificial fertilisers and pest control. The farmers have to show an interest, because of whatever reason and then they have to be able to find the information and help they need dealing with the various pest they deal with. It is sometimes difficult to forget that it was this type of farming that allowed for huge production levels that we have now, but it is possible to do so organically it might not take more work but requires better planning. The best system is to get organic farmer, that have successfully transitioned, to talk to their colleagues and show that it works, it is valid and that the benefits outweigh the difficulties that are associated to organic farming.

For me it is defends on the sales talked to the farmer if you want to introduce them.

I loved the idea of bringing this topic into the discussion on mylot. My parents are farmers. They do using much fertilizer and chemical. Their crops drop down after they used the fertilizer on their plant and the ground is not as fertile as before they count on the import chemicals. Now, they don't do farming a lot due to aging condition, but still they get the benefits of what they planned the last five years for instance coffee. Sometime, they use dried coffee leave as fertilizer. I think it is simple to be an organic farmer. We can use anything from plant. We don't have to buy chemical because chemical defeated the plant if we applied too much on our plantation.

I think organic farming is not easy to maintain, simply because there are so many insects outside there which can easily destroy the crops. We can only succeed in implementing organic crops if we come up with insect resistant crop. The price of the seeds should also be cheaper to attract more farmers.

Well i believe if they realize the cost of fertilizer and insecticide will increase in future, they might go organic. And telling them the size of organic food industry and the amount of money they can make out of this. Earning and saving money can only motivate them.

Because farming is focused on large scale crops it is very hard to implement Organic farming requires time as you must switch your operation over to organic many years before your produce can be labeled as such. I would imagine this increases the cost to make your produce and also increases the amount of produce that goes to wasted due to pests and infections of the plant even though you will not see a larger profit in store because it isn't technically organic. This is a large hit for farms. More farms are producing food on a large scale which makes it harder to grow organic because you must be more careful with your plants because they aren't as protected from pests or infection. Organic food also doesn't keep for as long of a time in shipping across the country. This means the it is most conceivable that local farms would use organic methods rather than large scale facilities. However a small local farm is subject to competition from the large corporate farms and can't compete well in pricing while trying to make a profit. Perhaps tax incentives or grants aimed at increasing local organic produce is one way to encourage local farms to chose to be organic. But the true way to get farms to convert is by consumers purchasing the goods that promote organic produce. With families struggling to make ends meet it is pretty easy to chose the cheaper product on the shelf instead of the healthier one. Consumers are what drive the market for products and unless they change their spending habits not much is going to change. at least that is my take on it. =)

Hi,buddha! Nowadays,farmers plant crops hardly use farmyard manure,they always use carbamide and compound fertilizer.etc quick fertilizer for saving labour force!Then the result is the farm is polluted and the vegetables are not healthy! I just have a simple idea that we could increase the price of fertilizer,haha,maybe it's impossible but I think it's really a good idea because the farmer will not buy so expensive fertilizer as long as they couldn't afford!Oh,maybe they will increase the price of vegetables,OMG!So,we should limit them to increase the price of vegetables at the same time!How about that?!^_^