Organic Food
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORGANIC AND NON ORGANIC FOODS Prime Minister Narendra Modi officially announced during inaugurating the Sikkim Organic Festival 2016 in Gangtok Sikkim. Sikkim is now the first fully organic state of India. Sikkim known as the Land of Flower will now be also known as first organic state too. “ Organic foods are defined ... as those foods that are grown without the use of synthetic fertilizers, sewage sludge, irradiation, genetic engineering, pesticides, or drugs. Pesticides are chemical or control agents made to kill insects, weeds, and fungal pests that damage crops.” Non-organic foods, refers to the either directly manufactured with or are indirectly contaminated by synthetic fertilizers, sewage sludge, irradiation, genetic engineering, pesticides or drugs, chemicals etc... The World Health Organization estimates that there are 3 million cases of pesticide poison in each year and up to 220,000 deaths, primarily in developing countries. The potenti