SEED AND PLANTING MATERIALS

• Seed and plant propagation shall be from organic agriculture.
• Use of conventional seed is allowed in case seed and plant propagation cannot be from organic agriculture
• Use of chemical treatment is prohibited.
• For perennial crop, growing plant propagation from non-organic agriculture in organic farm is permitted.
• Produce of the crop in the first 12 monthscannot be sold as organic product with ACT seal.
• Plant varieties and pollen from genetically modified organisms (GMOs) as well as transgene plants are not allowed.

CROP PROTECTION

Permitted pest control products/methods:

• Physical and biological pest control
• Sticky insect trap
• Sulfur
• Chitin
• Micro organisms
• Copper Sulfate
• Sodium bicarbonate
• Potassium permanganate
• Marigold
• “Hang Lai” (Derris elliptica (Roxb.) Benth.)
• Beneficial insect (predator, parasite)
• Copper (compound substance)
• Essential oils
• Vinegar
• Bordeaux mixture
• Bacillus thuringensis (Bt)
• Cover crops
• Crop Rotation
• Repellent plants
• Pyrethrin (Extract from natural Pyrethrums)
• Derris spp. (rotenone)
• Natural materials such as rice straw, dried leaves and grass
• Viruses
• Potassium soap / Soft soap
• Insect attraction agent or Pheromone
• Growth stimulant or hormone
• Botanical extracts
• Neem
• Nematode (for pest control)
• Ethyl alcohol
• Pest traps
• Light trap
• Wood ash
• Diatomaceous earth
• Motor oil (used)
• Vegetable oil
• Black light
• Pyrethrin (Extracted from natural pyrethrum)
• Pheromones
• Ultra-sound
• Plastic, based on polyethylene and polypropylene or other polycarbonates ,for mulching, fruit wrapping, insect netting
• Rice straw with preference given to straw from organic farm. But if it is not available, straw from conventional farm is permitted.

Permitted additives in pest control products:

• Citric acid
• Methyl parahydrobezoate
• Propyl parabezoate
• Polysorbate

Prohibited pest control products/methods:

• Detergent or synthetic sticking agents

FERTILIZERS AND SOIL CONDITIONERS

Permitted fertilizers and soil conditioners:

• Bone meal
• Molasses
• Vegetable seed cake
• Rice husks
• Sulphur
• Gypsum salt (Magnesium Sulphate)
• Industrial waste
• Wood ash, rice husk ash
• Saw dust
• Vermi-castle
• Calcium chloride
• Microorganisms
• Dolomite (Magnesium and Calcium Carbonate)
• Mushroom manure
• Bio-fertilizer
• Micronutrients (Synthetic nutrients such as copper, cobalt, sulphate, selenium, boron, manganese, molybdenum, zinc, iron, iodine, Allow to use when necessary or when there is a clear sign of lack. Nitrate and chloride form are not permitted.)
• Liquid bio-fertilizer
• Nitrogen fertilizer
• Green manure
• Potassium fertilizer
• Phosphorus fertilizer
• Animal manure
• Mineral fertilizer
• On farm and brought-in composts but only organic materials listed and shall be used as ingredients in composting.
• Compost from biogas waste
• Compost from mushroom straw
• Lime stone, marl (CaCO3)
• Crop rotation
• Straw and natural mulching materials
• Bat manure
• Rhizobium
• Blood meal
• Gypsum (calcium sulphate)
• Soil improvement materials
• Seaweed
• Blue green algae
• Compost bacteria
• Plant and vegetable residue
• Rock phosphate
• Clay
• Volcanic rock
• Magnesium rock
• Azolla
• Brought-in poultry manure or farm animal by-products which is brought from farms which all animals are raised together in free ranged areas.

Prohibited fertilizers and soil conditioners:

• Animal manures without aging
• Organic matter contained excrement from human
• Urban waste for composting
• Chilean nitrate and all synthetic nitrogenous fertilizers, including urea

Prohibited products:

• Synthetic growth stimulants e.g. using IBA and NAA for plant propagation.
• Synthetic dyes for dying fruits