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Organic Empowerment for 200 Youths in Lagos

200 Nigerian Youths have been recently selected to be trained on how to convert natural Organic Raw Materials to transparent Organic cosmetic end products. Read More

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Easing the soil’s temperature

Soil characteristics like organic matter content and moisture play a vital role in helping plants flourish. It turns out that soil temperature is just as important. Every plant needs a certain soil temperature to thrive. If the temperature changes too quickly, plants won’t do well. Their seeds won’t germinate or their roots will die. Read More

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Organic food is for everyone

The Trend for organic food is gradually growing around the world.
In 2016 alone, global sales of organic food reached the $40 billion mark for the first time. And while organic food might still account for only a small portion of the food and drink market, sales are on the rise in many regions. A recent report by the Organic Trade Association revealed that 82 percent of U.S. consumers buy organic regularly. Read More

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Dangers of Synthetic Fertilizers

Kills Soil Microbes: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.

Impact on Environment and Humans: 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 killing the aquatic organism and making them toxic for human consumption thereby causing cancerous diseases. 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.

Nutritional Deficiency: 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.

In order to accommodate growing meat demands, livestock production has become increasingly more industrialized.
Approximately 80% of the antibiotic in United States for sales and export are used in meat and poultry production.
—Antibiotic used in animals promote the hard-to0treat resistance in human.
—There are presence of super bugs in meat and poultry, where they transmit genetic immunity to antibiotics to other bacteria, including the ones that make and people sick. In essence, it causes loss of effectiveness of drugs in human.

Antibiotics contaminate ground and surface waters, posing a significant risk to human health. This is concerning as humans are increasingly exposed and infected with resistant bacteria from agricultural practices. Alarming resistant bacteria from agricultural been found in waters used for drinking and agricultural purposes.

It causes obesity in animals depositing harmful fat in human body. Antibiotic resistance will soon become epidemic if proper attention is not taken, growing organic.
Growing animals in a less crowded, stressful ad sanitary condition will aid them to provide more nutritive value to human.

The farther we go from what is natural the less healthy we become; we have a rising diet related ill-health and we need to produce healthy food, cut green house gas emission and protect our planet.

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World Food Day 2017

The Secretary, Agricultural and Rural Development Secretariat in the FCT, Mr Stanley Nzekwe, has urged residents to be actively involved in agriculture activities to ensure food security.

Nzekwe spoke in a briefing with newsmen on Sunday in Abuja as part of closing activities marking this year’s World Food Day. Read More

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World Vegetarian Day 2017

The first of October is celebrated as World Vegetarian Day and the entire month is observed internationally as the month for spreading awareness on why you should take up a vegetarian diet. This World Vegetarian Day, be proud of vegetarianism and live longer and healthier with vegetarian food. Read More

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Why is organic food much better?

More Quality

Organic entails working with nature, not against it. This yields to higher levels of animal welfare, minimum use of pesticides, no manufactured herbicides or artificial fertilizers and more environmentally sustainable management of the land and natural environment – this means more wildlife! Read More

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IFOAM EU talks getting ‘organic on every table’

Increased organic production would support the development of more sustainable food systems across Europe, IFOAM EU’s deputy director and policy manager Eric Gall tells Food Navigator. Read More

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Organic Food Falling Short of U.S. Certification?

Some organic food may not live up to its label.

That’s the finding of an audit published Monday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of Inspector General, which examined organic trade. The agency evaluated, in part, the compliance of imported organic products with U.S. government standards.

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Russia hopes to lead Organic food export

Last week, an EU court ruled Italy cannot ban the cultivation of an EU-approved genetically modified crop, thus publicly supporting GMO. At the same time, Russia has been ramping up production and export of organic food. GMO has been banned in Russia since 2016.

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