Organic farming in Portugal

Organic farming is a method of agriculture that excludes the use of synthetic chemicals or generically modified foods and sticking to the principles of sustainable agriculture. Its main objectives: to obtain food with high nutritional quality, improve soil fertility and eliminate all forms of agricultural pollution.

This type of agriculture has many advantages including a food promotes health and wellness, ecological and environmental benefits, uses no chemicals, is a lifetime warranty on water conservation, agronomic benefit, preservation and improvement in soil condition.

However, it also has some disadvantages such as: organic products are more expensive and people in Portugal have low purchasing power, few outlets, it is also difficult to find a restaurant only to these products.

In Portugal begin to exist more organic products on sale and despite being a little more expensive is an option that we do in terms of health, both in environmental terms.

Portugal dedicates 5% of the total agricultural area to the National Organic Agriculture, the country ranks ninth in the world ranking. Toxicological studies revealed a relation between some pesticides and certain diseases such as cancer, asthma and allergies. The organic farming are guaranteed health care!

Original work done by:

Escola EB 2,3 Santos Simões, Catarina, Catia, Marlene and Tania, Guimarães, Portugal.

Translated by me using an automatic translater, pending revision for more text quality.