ABSTRACT
Modern day agriculture throughout the globe is fully dependent up on the chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Immense and uninterrupted uses of chemical fertilizers and pesticides have led to diverse pernicious effects on soil and environment. Inorganic agriculture created the planetary environmental menace like loss of biodiversity, desertification, climate and transboundary pollution. Increased use of inorganic fertilizers in crop production deteriorated soil health, caused health hazard and created imbalance to environment by polluting air, water, soil etc. The continuous use of chemical fertilizers badly affected the texture and structure, reduced organic matter content and decreased microbial activities of soil. The sol degradation threatens the sustainability of cropping system (1-8). At present to control this alarming situation and to overcome the dangerous affects of modernized agriculture a new farming system “Organic farming” has
been developed. This system is ecofriendly, ecologically sustainable and economically viable and is based on the concept of production, cultivation and use of biofertilizers, organic manure, green manure and biopesticides.
