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Avoids chemicals

Organic farming avoids the use of chemicals – these are added to the non-organic production cycle for a number of reasons: 

(I) to boost yield – e.g. by preventing disease or by speeding up growth; 

(II) to feed the plant in order to adopt characteristics such as colour; 

(III) to control pests who might attack the plants. It should be noted that none of these actually benefit the consumer in terms of creating more nutritious, or even tasty, food. Organic farming has proven that the desirable elements of these techniques, such as disease and pest control, can be achieved to a large extent without the use of chemicals. It is also clear from this that organic farming is going to be more expensive at the production stage than non-organic farming.