Bio Agriculture

Customer: Iago Gabarashvili

The project was ordered in March 2019.

The project is being processed.

The subject of the order is the development of a bio-agriculture project in accordance with a previously agreed technical assignment with the customer on a land plot owned by the customer in the Kakheti region.

Bio agriculture is an alternative agricultural system which originated early in the 20th century in reaction to rapidly changing farming practices. Bio agriculture continues to be developed by various organic agriculture organizations today. It relies on fertilizers of organic origin such as compost manure, green manure, and bone meal and places emphasis on techniques such as crop rotation and companion planting. Biological pest control, mixed cropping and the fostering of insect predators are encouraged. In general, organic standards are designed to allow the use of naturally occurring substances while prohibiting or strictly limiting synthetic substances. For instance, naturally occurring pesticides such as pyrethrin and rotenone are permitted, while synthetic fertilizers and pesticides are generally prohibited. Synthetic substances that are allowed include, for example, copper sulfate, elemental sulfur and Ivermectin. Genetically modified organisms, nanomaterials, human sewage sludge, plant growth regulators, hormones, and antibiotic use in livestock husbandry are prohibited. Reasons for advocation of biofarming include advantages in sustainability, openness, self-sufficiency, autonomy/independence, health, food security, and food safety.

Bio agricultural methods are internationally regulated and legally enforced by many nations, based in large part on the standards set by the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM), an international umbrella organization for bio agriculture organizations established in 1972. Bio agriculture can be defined as:

an integrated farming system that strives for sustainability, the enhancement of soil fertility and biological diversity whilst, with rare exceptions, prohibiting synthetic pesticides, antibiotics, synthetic fertilizers, genetically modified organisms, and growth hormones.

Since 1990 the market for bio food and other products has grown rapidly.