Organic Products Blog October Archive

U.S. Farmers Goes Organic

By Website Introductions at 10/08/08 22:36

A new federal legislation that has already been passed this year, will offer farmers $20,000 annually to support the cost of converting their respective farms into organic agriculture.

The law also allocated budget to offset certification costs in such farm conversion and for organic research and facilities.

This provisions makes this new legislation the most "organic friendly farm bill" since 1990 version. It is also required the Department of Agriculture to establish a program for such standardization and certification of organic products.

Link: LEGISLATION: U.S. offers farmers money to go organic | CourierPostOnline.com | Courier-Post

Philippine females receive training on organic farming

Ten female members from the Philippine province of Negros Oriental will have something to cheer about after they learned how to use farm equipments to do with a perfect organic organic farm.

There are many ways you can approach organic farming, and that's what they teach there.

Link: DAILY STAR: Negros Oriental