REVIEW OF LITERATURE
2.1 DEFINITIONS
Organic crops
Crops that are produced or practiced without using artificial chemicals, or crops that are produced by and from living things (Oxford, 2014).
Organic agriculture produces products by using methods that don’t harm the environment but rather preserve it (USDA, 2015).
Inorganic crops
Crops that do not consist of or come from any living substances (Oxford, 2014).
The use of artificial fertilizers and pesticides in production, solely relying on fertilizers as a source of nourishment instead of the use of organic materials (NOSB, 1995)
2.2 ADVANTAGES OF INORGANIC CROPS
Affordable
The price of inorganic crops are cheap because the fertilizers that are used are relatively cheap as well, they are also cheap because the time taken to produce them is relatively short so hard work and …show more content…
Reliability:
This information is reliable because these articles are written by people who have years of experience in the topics of organic and inorganic crops, it is also reliable because these people work for mega corporations that would proof read their articles before posting them. The articles were also written less than 5 years ago showing that they are reliable also different sources from different places were used.
Limitations:
These corporations and writers are from another continent and their soil and weather differs from the weather found in Africa, their air might be less or more polluted which does play a role in the production of crops and majority of the information was obtained from the