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Organic farming is the form of agriculture that relies on techniques such as crop rotation, green manure, compost and biological pest control to maintain soil productivity and control pests on a farm. Organic farming excludes or strictly limits the use of manufactured fertilizers and pesticides, plant growth regulators such as hormones, livestock antibiotics, food additives, and genetically modified organisms. Organic farming usually involves mechanical weed control (via cultivating or hoeing) rather than herbicidal weed control.

A detailed and comprehensive information regarding organic farming concept, characteristics, principles, its types, organic production requirements, recycling of organic residues, green manures, bio-fertilizers; processing, grading, storage and transportation, soil improvement and organic manures, composting, its forms, advantages, disadvantages, and effect on physico-chemical and biological properties, vermi-compost, manure preparation methodology, organic manures and soil health improvement, economic analysis of organic farming, identification of different fungal and bacterial bio-control agents, disease control measures, organic insect management, cultural measures for insect management, indigenous technical knowledge for insect-pest, disease, weed and nutrient management, organic farming production.

1.About organic farming
Organic farming, concept, characteristics, principles, biodynamic agriculture, rishi krishi, panchgavya krishi, natural farming, nutueco farming, homa farming
2.Production techniques for organic farming
Green manuring, their characteristics, hedge row, indigenous formulations, weed management methods, preventive, cultural, and mechanical, organic vegetable raising, organic processing, packaging and storage; mulch, jeevamrutha, seed inoculation, economic analysis.
3.Organic manures
definition, bulky organic manures, farmyard manure, vegetable manure, goatry and sheep manure, poultry manure, oil cakes.
4.Composting
Composting, its stages, adco process, Indore process, NADEP compost, Bangalore process, vermicomposting, advantages and disadvantages of composting, methods of compost enrichment, benefits of composts, physical, chemical and biological properties, diseases in soil, control of weeds,
5.Vermicompost
Pit method, head method, phases of vermicomposting, essentials for worms, vermicomposting production methodology, precautions.
6.Manure preparation methodology
Vermiwash, liquid manure, compost tea, dung brew, cow urine, stem paste, panchgavya, amrithakaraisol, pitcher khad, harit pani, sanjivak, jeev amrit, amrit pani, kitchen biodigester, homemade manure, rice straw phosphor-compost, biogas slurry, farmyard manure, biogas plant, azolla production.
7.Organic manures and soil health improvement
Nutritional functions, physical effects, biological functions, plant pathogen incidence, paddy straw compost
8.Identification of different fungal and bacterial biocontrol agents
Composition and sterilization of media, bio control agents isolation, their identification, Trichoderma spp, Fusarium oxysporum, Aspergillus niger, Pseudomonas fluorescens, gram staining, antagonists, mass multiplication, talc based bioformulations, biocontrol agents delivery.
9.Disease control measures
Preventive and cultural methods
10.Organic insect management
Biocontrol agents mass production, host insect qualities, parasitoids, host insect mass production, Tricho cards preparation, its release, neem extract
11.Cultural measures for insect management
Planting methods, trap crops, water management, bird perches, natural enemies, mechanical methods, earthen pots.
12.Indigenous technical knowledge for insect-pest, disease, weed and nutrient management
ITK for insect pest management , disease management, weed management, nutrient management, Insect-pest management through cow urine and herbal plants, organic rodent control, use of botanicals
13.Organic farming production
Organic standards, organic production of rice/basmati, mize, soybean, turmeric, wheat, durum wheat, potato, onion, summer moongbean, maize(fodder), berseem, bajra (fodder)