CONCLUSION AND
RECOMMENDATIONS
The knowledge of the farmers who
responded in the survey on organic vegetable
production concepts, especially pertaining to the use
of chemical insecticides, herbicides, and fertilizers,
still needs to be improved. Their attitude towards an
organic farming system is also mixed. Many farmers
are still dependent on conventional practices but
they are trying to implement good practice. Many of
the farmers have good practices like soil
management, using trap methods for controlling
pests, sequential cropping etc. but in some important
cases, farmers do not use good practice such as
using biological insects for predation on other insect
pests, intercropping or mixed cropping, using
irrigation systems, and applying rouging to obtain
good yields. However, they did use more organic
matter (for example, animal manure and plant