Ecological agriculture revolves around three important factors, namely soil, water and seed. In nature, organic relationships are a pervasive phenomenon, and everything is interconnected. The integral relationship between soil, water, flora and soil microbes is obvious. It is the totality of these relationships that becomes the bedrock of organic and sustainable farming. Maintaining soil fertility and productivity on a sustainable basis is of primary importance for continuous agriculture production. Knowledge that has been in existence for more than 2000 years has been undermined. Indigenous agricultural knowledge is a vital part of the process of making agriculture sustainable.

Agro-ecology provides the knowledge and methodology necessary for developing an agriculture that is on the one hand environmentally sound and on the other hand highly productive.