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In conventional agriculture there is widespread misuse of agrochemical fertilisers, herbicide and pesticides due to lack of awareness of risk, failure of read labels/instructions, failure to wear protective clothing or store chemicals safely. Misuse of chemicals leads to serious health problems for farmers and their families. As these agricultural are asset on organic farms, they provide safe work and living place.

-->> Safer produce
The misuse of chemicals often leads to products reaching local markets with harmfully high level of pesticide residue. 

 agrochemicals by farmers (to increase the crop in backdrop of,   financial fancily or to speed up harvest for the same reason, not reading the label, or ignorance about harmful effects of overuse) often leads to products reaching local markets with high levels of chemical residues, often at harmful, high levels.

Organic food does not have any, let alone harmful levels of pesticide residue since no chemicals use in permitted, leading to safe, clean foods on local as well as international market.

 
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