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Pasumai Vikatan covered Poorna Natural Farm

farminger November 11, 2018

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Poorna Natural Farm in News</span></h2>
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Media coverage

farminger May 15, 2017

Poorna Natural Farm in News Malayalam Manorama 2016 Agriculture & Industry Survey October 2016 (page 1 of 2) Agricu...

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Synthetic Fertilizers</h2>
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Throughout human history, we have been using fertilizers in agriculture to increase the nutrition level of the soil and hence get healthy and productive plants.</div>
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But only in the last few decades we have been rusing synthetic fertilizers. The use of synthetic fertilizer has increased crop yields and brought in the so called "green revolution". But that is not all - they also bring with them a bag full of unintended consequences as well.  There are far reaching negative consequence of multiplying crop yields by using more and more synthetic fertilizers.</div>
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Before getting to see those ill-effects of synthetic fertilizers, lets see the difference between organic fertilizers and synthetic fertilizers.</div>
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Organic fertilizers - naturally occurring substances such as  green manure, organic manure and compost- increases the organic matter in the soil that stimulate beneficial soil microorganisms and improve the structure of the soil. Soil microbes play an important role in converting organic fertilizers into soluble nutrients that can be absorbed by plants. </div>
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Synthetic fertilizers - man-made combinations of chemicals and inorganic substances- typically combine nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium and other elements in different ratios. Synthetic fertilizers are water-soluble and can be taken up by the plant almost immediately unlike organic fertilizers.</div>
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Kills Soil Microbes</h4>
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Synthetic fertilizers have long-term negative effects. Synthetic fertilizers kill beneficial microorganisms in the soil that convert dead plant and animal remains into nutrient-rich organic matter - making farmer totally dependent on synthetic fertilizers for future planting.</div>
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Since synthetic fertilizers are water soluble, Nitrogen- and phosphate-based synthetic fertilizers leach into groundwater and increase its toxicity, causing water pollution. Fertilizers that leach into streams, rivers, lakes and other bodies of water disrupt aquatic ecosystems. </div>
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Synthetic fertilizers increase the nitrate levels of soil. Plants produced from such soil, upon consumption, convert to toxic nitrites in the intestines. These harmful nitrites react with the hemoglobin in the blood stream to cause methaeglobinaemia, which damages the vascular and respiratory systems. </div>
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Nutritional Deficiency </h4>
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Synthetic fertilizers tend to replenish only nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus - while depleting the other nutrients and minerals that are naturally found in truly fertile soils. Plants that grow in overly fertilized soil are deficient in iron, zinc, carotene, vitamin C, copper and protein. This leads to increase in   nutritionally-deficient foods.<br />
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Evils of Synthetic Fertilizer

farminger January 25, 2017

Synthetic Fertilizers Throughout human history, we have been using fertilizers in agriculture to increase the nutrition level of the soi...

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Why we choose naturally grown food?</h2>

We instinctively know that food from a naturally farmed garden is good for our health. If you want to know why we choose naturally grown vegetables over conventionally grown vegetables, please read along.<br />
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Pesticide</h3>
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Pesticides are chemical compounds used to control pests in food crops and hence to increase food production. Over the past few decades pesticides have been successful in increasing food production - however, there are unintended consequences that are hazardous to humans and the environment we live in.</div>
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In a NCCI (The National Center for Biotechnology Information , a US government agency) <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2984095/">published research, scientists say the following about the ill-effects of pesticides:</a></div>
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"<u>Hazards of pesticides: Direct impact on humans</u><br />
If the credits of pesticides include enhanced economic potential in terms of increased production of food and fibre, and amelioration of vector-borne diseases, then their debits have resulted in serious health implications to man and his environment. There is now overwhelming evidence that some of these chemicals do pose a potential risk to humans and other life forms and unwanted side effects to the environment (Forget, <a aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" class=" bibr popnode" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2984095/#CIT0043" rid="CIT0043" role="button" style="color: #642a8f;">1993</a>; Igbedioh, <a aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" class=" bibr popnode tag_hotlink tag_tooltip" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2984095/#CIT0059" id="__tag_201824854" rid="CIT0059" role="button" style="color: #642a8f;">1991</a>; Jeyaratnam, 1981). No segment of the population is completely protected against exposure to pesticides and the potentially serious health effects, though a disproportionate burden, is shouldered by the people of developing countries and by high risk groups in each country (WHO, <a aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" class=" bibr popnode" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2984095/#CIT0183" rid="CIT0183" role="button" style="color: #642a8f;">1990</a>). The world-wide deaths and chronic diseases due to pesticide poisoning number about 1 million per year (Environews Forum,<a aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" class=" bibr popnode tag_hotlink tag_tooltip" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2984095/#CIT0035" id="__tag_201824881" rid="CIT0035" role="button" style="color: #642a8f;">1999</a>)."</blockquote>
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<a href="http://naturalsociety.com/7-nasty-effects-of-pesticides-in-food-exposure/">This article captures the impact of pesticides on humans well</a> - here is a summary of those nasty effects of pesticides:<br />
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Cancer</h4>
Cancer has been linked in over 260 studies worldwide to agrochemicals. Scientists have linked pesticides with several types of cancers, including that of the breast, prostate, brain, bone, thyroid, colon, liver, lung, and more. Some <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/31/local/la-me-pesticides-cancer-20110831">researchers from USC found that</a> “those who lived within 500 meters of places where methyl bromide, captan and eight other organochlorine pesticides had been applied, they found, were more likely to have developed prostate cancer.”<br />
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Obesity and Diabetes</h4>
Pesticides have also been linked to obesity and diabetes. Some researchers found a higher prevalence of obesity in the participants with high urinary concentrations of a pesticide known as 2,5-dichlorophenol (2,5-DCP). It is important to note that 2,5-DCP is one of the most widely used pesticides on the globe.<br />
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Robert Sargis, MD, PhD, revealed his recent study that agricultural fungicide created insulin resistance in fat cells. The journal Diabetes Carepublished in 2011 that people with excess weight and high levels of organochlorine pesticides in their bodies had greater risk of becoming diabetic.<br />
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Parkinson’s Disease</h4>
Long-term exposure to herbicides and pesticides have been associated in over 60 studies with Parkinson’s.<br />
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Infertility and Birth Defects</h4>
One of the most well-known negative effects of pesticides, infertility is continuously found to be a result of exposure to these agrochemicals. Atrazine—a weed killer used in agriculture may be partially responsible for climbing miscarriage and infertility rates.<br />
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Other researchers tested roundup on mature male rats at a concentration range between 1 and 10,000 parts per million (ppm), and found that within 1 to 48 hours of exposure, testicular cells of the mature rats were either damaged or killed.<br />
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Autism</h4>
Admittedly, pesticides aren’t solely to blame for autism, but they may be a hefty part of the equation. Leading scientists are attributing the condition to genes and insecticides exposed to the mother while pregnant as well as to the child in early years.  This is because many chemicals affect the neurology of bugs, inadvertently affecting the neurological function of children, too. A 2010 Harvard study blames organophosphate pesticides—found in children’s urine—to ADHD.<br />
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Now, the above maybe enough reason to avoid vegetables grown from conventional farming and choose organically grown vegetables. However, there are few more reasons.<br />
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