Organic Vs Organic Farming

There are a range of different activities which farmers use on their crops yield to try and create more profit. There are two different types of farming which are intensive and organic. Organic farming is a form of farming which uses the resources which are provided naturally using compost and green manure which are organic fertiliser. Intensive farming is being able to grow a high yield of crop in an area where with the organic technique you would get less. They would use fertilisers which would also make the crops grow bigger which would create more of the product meaning a bigger profit. The fertilizers are an example of using inorganic chemicals.The problem with the fertilisers are when they get into the water supplies as it can seriously damage and destroy an ecosystem. The artificial fertiliser causes eutrophication which is where fertilisers get into lakes by rain soaking the fertilisers down into the down and transporting it to a water ecosystem like a lake or a stream. The high levels of the fertiliser in the water causes an excessive richness in nutrients. Because of all these nutrients in the lake it causes major and rapid growth of algae which grows and floats on the water.

This gap is there to reduce the amount of nutrients getting the water ecosystem by run off. The buffer zones are normally covered in vegetation and are found at side to the water ecosystems. A benefit to the buffer zone is that the variation that is there decreases the nutrients getting into the water and also creates a habitat for the land animals. The vegetation will grow bigger from all of the run of nutrients which they are receiving from the fertilizers which would cause the biodiversity of the buffer zone to increase. The buffer zone can be around 20-30 meters wide which is a good enough width to be able to get all of the nutrients way from the