Dutch organic farmers Jan-Hein and Sandra Nikkels on Sept. 28, 2022. (The Epoch Times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nJan-Hein and Sandra Nikkels are organic farmers. They don\u2019t use pesticides or fertilizer, and they try to employ a limited amount of manure.<\/p>\n
Their operation includes thousands of egg-laying hens as well as 200 milking cows. The animals they raise have more space than they would on many non-organic farms. They can also go outside.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not so easy to farm [organic], but we like it,\u201d Jan-Hein told Balmakov in a Sept. 28 interview with the couple.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to work more with the weather,\u201d Sandra added.<\/p>\nChickens roam free on Dutch organic farmers\u2019 Jan-Hein and Sandra Nikkels\u2019 property on Sept. 28, 2022. (The Epoch Times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
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In 2020, the EU\u2019s Farm to Fork strategy set ambitious organic farming targets for 2030\u2014a 50 percent reduction in pesticide use, and 25 percent of farms becoming organic.<\/p>\n
Jan-Hein and Sandra voiced skepticism about that sort of promotion of organic farming on a much larger scale.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot [every] farmer can do that. Not everybody has enough land around their farm to send the chickens out or the cows out,\u201d Sandra said.<\/p>\n
She believes it\u2019s more important for consumers to try to buy eggs produced locally, even if they aren\u2019t organic. Organic food, she continued, has to be one of many options, at least for now.<\/p>\n
\u201cA consumer has to decide, \u2018We want to buy organic,\u2019 and then the market is ready, and then you can make the transition. But when I am in the supermarket, I want to choose,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOrganic is what we feel is good, but not everyone can pay for it,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
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