Benefits of Organic Foods & Farming in Bangladesh
The production process of organic food and conventionally grown crops or produce can significantly impact your mental and emotional health as well as the environment in Bangladesh. The organic foods and their production processes have some significant health benefits for people, livestock, environment, ecology and soil conservation in Bangladesh.
Organic foods are proved to contain more beneficial nutrients, such as antioxidants, than their conventionally-grown foods. crops or produce.
People, who have allergies to foods, chemicals, or preservatives, may reduce or remove their symptoms by eating only organic foods in Bangladesh.
Organic foods or produce contain fewer fertilizers and pesticides, while conventionally grown foods or produce and agricultural fields contain more chemicals, such as fertilizers, synthetic fungicides, herbicides, and insecticides.
Organic foods are often fresher, and last longer than conventionally grown produce, because organic foods don’t contain preservatives.
Organic farming interventions are better for the environment, because they may reduce pollution, conserve water, reduce soil erosion, increase soil fertility, and use less energy in Bangladesh.
Organic farming can protect nearby birds, fish. animals and people living close to farms, because no chemical fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides are used there.
Organic livestock are not given antibiotics, growth hormones, or fed animal byproducts, because animal byproducts can increase the risk of mad cow disease (BSE) and the use of antibiotics can create antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria.
Organic livestock are raised in the open space, which helps to keep them healthy.
Organic meat and milk may contain 50 percent more certain nutrients, including omega-3 fatty acids, than conventionally raised livestock products (source: a European study report, 2016).
Organic foods in Bangladesh are free from GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms, GMOs or genetically engineered, GE foods).