A production system which prohibits use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers and relies on crop rotation, crop residues, animal manures, compost, nitrogen-fixing legume crops, mechanical cultivation, botanical or biological controls with minimum adverse effects on health and environment. A transition period of three years is required before crops are certified organic.
Fiber that is produced under a system of Organic farming and that is processed, packaged, transported and stored as to maintain segregation and prevention of contamination from other fiber and from synthetic pesticides, prohibited defoliants and/or desiccants.
