BIO-INTENSIVE APPROACH TO FOOD PRODUCTION
BIO-INTENSIVE APPROACH TO FOOD PRODUCTION
By VilynHumol, University of the Philippines – Los Banos
- INTRODUCTION
The bio-intensive approach is a biological form of agriculture in which a small area of land is intensively cultivated, using nature’s own ingredients to rebuild and then maintain the soil’s productivity. At the heart of the approach is the effort to improve the soils’ capability to nurture and sustain plant life. What a bio-intensive gardener tries to do on his/her small plot is to simulate/replicate a natural forest (with the constant recycling of nutrients and maintenance of soil, moisture and microbial conditions). Many countries of the world have farmed biologically for thousands of years and have been able to sustain output levels over these years.