What you can say when marketing organic 2020 - Flipbook - Page 18
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BETTER FOR
SOIL
Keeping soils fertile and preventing soil erosion is a
challenge for all farmers. Instead of using artificial
fertilisers, organic farmers look after their soils using
manure, compost, ‘cover crops’ and crop rotations.73
Around the world, we are losing soil much faster
than it’s formed, alarmingly between 10 and 40 times
faster.74 One UN official stated that we may have fewer
than 60 harvests left.75 95% of our food production
relies on soil,76 so it has never been more crucial to
farm in a way that protects and preserves the soil.
Organic farming is based
on nourishing the soil
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