According to the Japanese Agricultural Standard the Organic, agricultural products shall be produced in either of the following methods:
1. To, produce organic agricultural products in fields with cultivation management methods so as to reduce the load from the agricultural production on the environment as much as possible, by avoiding the use of chemical synthetic fertilizers and agricultural chemicals in principle and exercising the farmland productivity derived from original soils in order to sustain and enhance the natural recycling function of agriculture;
2. To harvest organic agricultural products by methods so as not to damage the ecosystem preservation in harvesting points”.
For more information, please consult the Notification No.1605 of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of October 27, 2005.
