What is an “organic” food product? In recent years the word organic has become increasingly common – and it inevitably gets a strong commercial label. What is an organic, is supposed to be better, and healthier.

In principle, it should be so. Organic production, if practiced in its entirety according to organic principles, offers much more value than just providing food for a healthier person.

How would you describe organic production?

Organic production is not only a way of producing food, but also a way of life, food consumption, self-observation and general approach of people to nature and understanding of its processes, the perfect ratios and solutions that exist in nature and how it finds the answer to many impossible questions in the fruit production itself. Observation the natural principles and principles of the crop and trying to imitate them is one step from the organic approach to food production.

Due to the increasing nutritional needs of mankind, people abandoned their close relationship with nature and its principles, and of course – the accumulation of material goods in the last decades of our existence – is wholly oriented towards the irreversible depletion of natural resources. Organic local production of small areas offers the opportunity for sustainable use of resources, in some cases regenerative, to minimize the effects of such behavior.

What is a Sustainable agriculture?

Agriculture currently uses inputs coming from more distant destinations (imports), consumes, relies on and pollutes energy that is not derived from renewable sources (oil), is dependent on pesticides, chemical fertilizers and state aid (subsidies), causing enormous emissions. Damage to biodiversity conservation, pollutes the waters, poses a risk to humanity – its health and the overall well-being of all living things on Earth.

The word sustainability comes from the Latin word “sustinere” and means to withstand, assuming long-term support and permanence.
In a broad sense, sustainable agriculture can maintain its productivity and usability towards society in the long run. It must comply with natural principles, conserve resources, be economically justified and supportive of society, commercially competitive, and healthy to the environment.
There are currently discussions around the world on how to achieve sustainability and which segments of production are acceptable and which are not to be considered sustainable.