Organic foods are foods that are grown from crops under organic agricultural practices without using chemical fertiliser and insecticides. Similarly, eggs and meat from poultry and livestock raised under natural environment, not under captured unnatural condition, are also organic foods. It has been found through research that organic eggs are good for human health.

It is true that crops grown through organic agriculture is good for health but the problem is crop production in this system is rather difficult, while the yield is also not enough to meet our needs. Still we can go for homestead and roof gardening to produce some vegetables for our own consumption. Large farms can raise poultry birds under open environment to produce organic eggs without feeding the birds artificial chemical based feeds.

Professor M Zahidul Haque
Department of Agricultural Extension & Information System, SAU, Dhaka