Ecological Agriculture

 Ecological agriculture (which is the same as biological or organic agriculture, the term organic being used especially in the United States of America) is a modern process of cultivating plants and of raising animals without using fertilizers, synthesis pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, growing stimulators and regulators and intensive systems in the process.

The strict rules that are the founding principle of the ecological agriculture are the ones that really separate it from the conventional agriculture.

The ecological agriculture is a process that aims first and foremost to obey as much the laws of nature as possible in order to produce a pure food that can be tolerated much better by the human organism and that can contribute to our health.

The appliance of the laws of ecological producers is monitored by inspection and certification institutions that release the certificates for an ecological product. These institutions control the chain of production of a product, starting from the inspection of the cultivated land to the processes through which the final product can be obtained.

A producer can go from the conventional agriculture to ecological agriculture after a period of transition entitled „conversion period“. During this time, the animals that were previously fed with hormones and the lands that were treated with chemical substances must go through a process entitled „purification“ (e.g., 2 years in case of annual cultures).