Vol. 11, Special Issue 7 (2022)

Author(s):
Sree Vathsa Sagar US and Vikas V Kulkarni

Abstract:
Organic agriculture is the type of agriculture system that converges to the state that relies on ecosystem-based management rather than external agriculture inputs. It is system that considers the impact of all inputs that are used in the farming not only on the plant as food but also as a one of the living entity and more importantly it considers environment, ecosystem and biodiversity effects on priority bases than other and this system is based on sustainability. Synthetic chemicals used in conventional agriculture have many undesirable effects on environment as well as the human health so to reduce that residual effect of chemicals, only use of organic inputs in organic agriculture. Thus there is requirement for development of cultivars that will be abiding all these rules and also the having on par yield and other agronomically superior traits in them so that would be help organic farmers for better yield and even encourage the conventional farmers to go for organic farming as these will yield on par with conventional cultivars, adding to this there is acute need even for the development of new breeding techniques for organic cultivar development that would pace the development of cultivars for organic condition, so considering both food as well as nutritional security development of cultivars for organic condition should be done because without either of one above, sustainability of not only organic farming even whole agriculture will be under question that is this review paper brief about possibilities of achieving organic farming with current and advanced plant breeding.