Organic grows with 2 million hectares - News Organic

hans 13 February 2020

This is in response to it Boerenbusiness article:
[url=http://www.boerenbusiness.nl/ artikel/10885860/biologisch-groent-met-2-mljoen-hectare]Biologisch grows by 2 million hectares[/url]

Until there is a comprehensive definition of "ORGANIC", statements about organic acreage mean absolutely nothing.

Henk 13 February 2020

See IFOAM Hans!!

hans 13 February 2020

IFOAM is an ONG, a kind of lobby club run by wealthy elites, and its purpose is;
"IFOAM's mission is to lead, unite and support the organic farming movement in all its diversity."

So says nothing about standards or minimum requirements for working methods or products.

Martin 13 February 2020

Nice to read that organic farming is increasing worldwide.
Good for the farmer, the buyers and finally also Mother Earth.
Let's assume that many people are slowly starting to realize that good food promotes health
We are on the right track.Grt Martin

Joris 13 February 2020

Hans, the legislation and regulations for organic products: www.skal.nl

ordinary farmer 13 February 2020

good peat soil for dairy farming and heavy clay
that fits biologically

hans 13 February 2020

Scale ....

Sjoemelt already with standards in the Netherlands to keep organic stock in the shops.
In addition, it has a number of colleague companies that inspect abroad, in or outside the EU, in their own way.

Because trade is sacred, norms are adaptable, and the rest…
(For example, a tomato from the greenhouse in France cannot be called organic)

Joris 14 February 2020

Hans, yes there is a difference, nice that some countries go further than the minimum requirements. Justify your statements....

hans 14 February 2020

Minimum requirements .....

Yes, that's why up to 14x fewer types (prohibited in the EU) crop protection products are found on normal bananas from (colonies) of EU countries than on organic bananas from, for example, Ecuador or the Dominican Republic. Yes, standards and accepting each other's standards….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Biw7UqrcauY

green freak 14 February 2020

Hans stop fighting the green lies, they still think they do better, even though there is up to 100% more residue on organic foreign products than on regular Dutch grown. Organic farming is the arrogance of the rich west.

small problem 14 February 2020

Consumption does not grow with the supply , we are all switching too quickly ! At the moment there is already a considerable surplus of organic products and this will only increase in the coming years!

chubby not farmer 14 February 2020

I hope that that rubbish will not be dumped on the conventional market, we will be left with our quality products because no sane person wants to eat that rubbish

innovative 14 February 2020

I'm also curious how they plan to keep it clean. last year there was already a crying shortage of workers. I hope it becomes a big mess everywhere

Joris 14 February 2020

Pretty scary, isn't it, that organic farming is growing? I can also imagine that as a farmer you would really like to work according to the organic requirements. And common and quality...? If you could explain that.....

peta 14 February 2020

Yes Joris, damn scary. All those about switches with their advisors who when they switch will fall into the knife of the surplus market. That doesn't bother the advisors and acclaimers, the farmers do, get a big hole in their budget, if they survive at all. Are simply mangled in front of the supermarket door.

Wim 14 February 2020

Farmer wanted to keep organic chickens but did not get a sales contract, the market was saturated.

hans 14 February 2020

People like Joris are really scary.

People who don't know anything about blows, cite advertising brochures here and live completely outside reality.

Out of pride, farmers from the field or people on the shop floor throw all sorts of things at their feet, write down unfounded riffs, and when this is refuted remain completely absent.

small problem 14 February 2020

All of us will only move towards organic when the market asks for a fully organic package and is willing to do so and has the financial means to be able to pay for it on a large scale, and not, as is currently the case when only a small part of the population can afford it. This does not alter the fact that the conventional producers regularly monitor their organic colleagues and are also quietly adjusting their business operations to something. Introducing that bit more sustainability into the current working method, which is already happening at many companies, is already a major step forward.

peer 14 February 2020

if we all start growing organically, we will get rid of 2 things, namely the overproduction and the nagging that they cannot find plant protection products

peter 14 February 2020

political vote for CETA treaty. These treaties are aimed at allowing large multinationals to purchase goods in that country where they are produced CHEAPEST at a given time, in other words, treating people as slaves and exploiting constant wages for starvation!!!! politically it does not matter that the welfare-sustainability standards are much lower than in the Netherlands, the EXTRA nitrogen emissions for long-distance transport (canada-holandia) also take politics for granted. Because fascism blesses the multinationals determine what happens!!!!

Joris 14 February 2020

Yes Hans, a lot of bears on the road. Which may not even need to be there. And also knowing exactly from which background someone is telling something, the farmer from practice. Something with roads and Rome.

hans 14 February 2020

The point is Joris, I'm not against organic, everyone should do what he thinks is good or better.

This is about trade, about competition, about the environment, about our future world.
Then say that the organic acreage is increasing, without saying anything more about it. Why the focus on chemical crop protection products (that is, there is no such thing internationally), while transport distances also leave their disastrous pollution behind? Why abhor fertilizers, when whole jungles are being cut down further afield to produce enough cheap food?

There are more roads that lead to Rome, as an ignorant citizen, that is certainly in your ears.

Joris 14 February 2020

Hans... you think I'm a ignorant citizen?
Let us indeed do what we think is best, without doing justice to everything that is wrong with it.

hans 14 February 2020

Yes Joris, you are an ignorant citizen.

(Or at least try your best in your contributions here to pass for one.)
1 reaction (skal) what the average citizen thinks and sees as great, otherwise nothing substantive.

Joris 14 February 2020

Whew Hans..... I'm curious what you know about organic farming. As a farmer, I deal with it every day.

profiteer 15 February 2020

Organic farming can only exist because of the many subsidies, they receive preferential treatment everywhere and they contain products that a normal person would not yet want to eat for free.

frog 15 February 2020

profiteer wrote:

Organic farming can only exist because of the many subsidies, they receive preferential treatment everywhere and they contain products that a normal person would not yet want to eat for free.

they are like signs they benefit enormously from their environment, the squirting neighbor !

hans 15 February 2020

Joris, as a farmer I also have to deal with unfair competition on a daily basis.
That your customers make demands on you, whether you have to comply with the rules of the sector, or even national or EU rules.
But that you are then confronted with imports from elsewhere, produced under completely different rules, 100 or 1000 km. transported by air or over water for an (unburdened) next to nothing ....

I think our farmers are doing well, organic or not, we produce what and in the way that consumers want HERE.

However, why are these consumer demands, translated into the rules that apply, here on the farms, and not where the consumer buys, in the shop?

That's what the discussion should be about, not about how many hectares. organic (under which standard) has not been added to the world.

Joris 15 February 2020

Yes Hans, indeed the worldwide differences... That applies to all agriculture. Hopefully, consumers will make a more conscious choice in the future.

Still, it's nice to read that organically growing, whether a farmer certifies for it or not, more sustainable awareness and implementation among the farmer is better worldwide.

Profiteur and frog, I would like to know where that subsidy can be obtained ;) Is it time that organic farmers were rewarded more. They are only bothered by those squirting neighbors.

frog 15 February 2020

Joris wrote:

Yes Hans, indeed the worldwide differences... That applies to all agriculture. Hopefully, consumers will make a more conscious choice in the future.

Still, it's nice to read that organically growing, whether a farmer certifies for it or not, more sustainable awareness and implementation among the farmer is better worldwide.

Profiteur and frog, I would like to know where that subsidy can be obtained ;) Is it time that organic farmers were rewarded more. They are only bothered by those squirting neighbors.

well that's great anyway, sit together with 250 organic farmers in 1 polder and then see what comes of it with a real real disease pressure and therefore not under the umbrella of your spraying neighbor

croessel 5 March 2020

Hans has a problem with himself should look around a bit more

hans 5 March 2020

Well resume, let's see!

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