Should all farming be Organic?
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Jonathan Ascroft BYA02A1 Should all farming be Organic? Farming is an essential process; it provides us with food, jobs and brings money into the economy. Without farming we would not have enough food to live. With an ever-increasing population farming has had to make changes to the process to make it more efficient. Technology came first with farm machinery, which made farming a lot easier and quicker. It could now be done on a large scale. After the Second World War farmers were asked to increase their output, scientists came up with agro chemicals. These could be sprayed onto crops to kill insects, diseases and weeds, or they could be applied directly to the seed, these increased the yield of the crops, boosting outputs on the farm. Chemical fertilizers had been produced and the crops had been cross-bred with different varieties to increase the yield. The need for a higher...


