Different Agriculture farming

a) Bio-dynamic farming :

• A holistic system of agriculture devised by Rudolph Steiner that seeks to connect nature with cosmic creative forces.
• An attempt is mae to crate a whole farm organism in harmony with its habitat.

b) Ecological agriculture :

• Farming practices that enhance or at least don’t harm the environment and are aim at minimizing the use of chemical inputs , rather than completely providing them as in organic farming.

c) Natural farming:

• Popularly known as “do nothing farming”, is a farming system that follows the principles of nature, while minimizing the interference of human activities in agro-ecosystem.

Principles of natural farming :

• No tillage
• No fertilizers
• No pesticides
• No weeding by chemical or tillage

d) Organic farming :

• Organic farming is crop and livestock production practices that avoids the use synthetic pesticides, chemical fertilizers, genetically modified organisms, antibiotics and growth hormones. It is a farming technique that maintain, enhance and sustains the quality of the ecosystem.

Principles of Organic Farming (IFOAM, 2005)

• Principle of Ecology
• Principle of Care
• Principle of Health
• Principle of Fairness

e) Permaculture :

• Permaculture or Permanent Agriculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agricultural productive system following special guidelines and principles of land use system.

Features of Permaculture

• Effective land use pattern
• Intensive land use
• Integrated and diversified farming
• Zoning and Guilds for utilization of 3-D space
• Regeneration and rehabilitation

f) Ecological farming :

• Ecological farming is a farming system that maintains the ecological balance (don’t harm the environment), by minimizing the use of chemical inputs.

Principles of Ecological farming

1. Food sovereignty: the primacy of people’s and community’s rights to food and food production, over trade concerns.
2. Rewarding farmers and rural communities
3. Smart food production and yields
4. Biodiversity and diverse seed systems
5. Sustainable soil health
6. Ecological pest protection
7. Climate resilient food system