Farming on a Modern Kibbutz... Farming is an everyday life occurrence that has become very notorious throughout the years. It is the one of many things we humans do to make our Agriculture at an all time high. What’s a “Modern Kibbutz” you ask? Kibbutzim are a living example of the mutual spirit that has been central to green living communities. It is a combined community in Israel that was traditionally based on farming. Kibbutz is a form of...

MIRI Method. How rice farmers can conserve water... Rice is an important staple in the diets of billions of people in the world. The planting and cultivation of rice has been practiced by humans for thousands of years. New methods are always being discovered not only to produce a better quality of rice but also to help farmers efficiently plant and harvest the crop. Multiple Inlet Rice Irrigation or MIRI is a new method used by farmers to irrigate rice paddies. The...

European Union votes to ban toxic farm pesticide... Issues are still ongoing while European Union, together with its 27 member states, votes to ban toxic farm pesticide that includes neurotoxic and immunotoxic most especially those that can disrupt the endocrine, genotoxic, carcinogenic and toxic to reproduction. The committee also proposed the use of sustainable farming methods instead of the conventional ones. Endosulfan, being a neurotoxic organochlorine insecticide,...

What is organic farming?... Organic farming is just farming without the use of chemical fertilizers and other practices that are not only harmful to human beings but is also damaging for the environment. Organic farming relies on crop rotation, composting, earth friendly methods of pest control and other ecologically safe solutions.  Organic farmers limit their use of pesticides, herbicides, anti-biotic and other practices that have detrimental...

What is farm fishing?... It is said that even the seas couldn’t unlimitedly supply us with her abundance, so people who demands even more of its aquatic yields thought of a more suitable alternative to the problem. It is the birth of farm fishing. Farm fishing is raising fish in wide tanks or man-made enclosures to harvest and sell it commercially when they reach their harvesting size and weight. It is more stable source of income...

Disease-Free Crops in Green Farming... Healthy communities, whether of humans or any other living forms, have no place for diseases. In eco-friendly communities, growing disease-free crops is the main focus of farming. It is true that microbes are part of our ecological space but those bad ones, which have evolved to flourish by destroying crops, are never welcome. Shutting them out is integral to green living. How do we manage it? Following are some common...

Sustainable Farm Communities and Ecological Stabil... Sustainability is essentially an ecological concept whereby the resources of a natural, ecological system are used by its living forms – plants and animals (including humans) – with a rate that does not exceed the natural rate of their replenishment. In addition, sustainable use of resources is environmental-friendly, i.e. it does not subject the system’s processes and productivity to harmful levels of stress, at...