Briefly describe the main elements of organic agricultural production and construction

Organic agriculture is a method of agriculture that avoids the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers as much as possible in agricultural production, and instead relies mainly on measures such as organic fertilizers, crop rotation, and mechanical cultivation to sustain agricultural production.

Conventional agricultural production systems rely mainly on pesticide and fertilizer inputs to control pests, weeds and crop nutrition. Organic agriculture, on the other hand, maintains the productivity of the soil with farm animal manure, green manure, leguminous crops and organic wastes, and controls crop pests and diseases with crop rotation, mulching, timely sowing and tillage, and biological control measures.

Organic agriculture does not use organisms and their products obtained through genetic engineering, nor does it use chemically synthesized substances such as pesticides, fertilizers, growth regulators and feed additives, according to certain organic agricultural production standards.

It follows the laws of nature and the principles of ecology, coordinates the balance between planting and breeding, and adopts a series of sustainable agricultural technologies to maintain a sustainable and stable agricultural production system as a mode of agricultural production.

Historical background:

The fact is that many farms today grow in the same way, but just come up with different concepts. For example, the Longmenzhuang Eco-Farm in the eastern mountains of Pingjiang, Yueyang, has always insisted on "natural grazing and farming".

Currently, it is the first original ecological farm in Hunan province to adopt natural grazing and farming. It grows only seasonal vegetables, does not use chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides or growth hormones, raises livestock in the forest, and rejects all hormones and drugs.

The term "organic farming" first appeared in Lord Northbourne's 1940 book "Prospects for the Land". In reality, however, organic farming is the oldest form of agriculture.

Before the end of World War II, farmers had no choice because they didn't have the chemicals (synthetic fertilizers and pesticides) that come from oil. It was later discovered that technologies invented during the war were useful for agricultural production. For example, ammonium nitrate, a chemical used as an explosive, was converted into fertilizer, and organophosphorus compounds used as nerve gases were later used as insecticides.