One kibbutz in Israel specializes in organic agriculture. The farmers there feel that chemicals are bad for the soil and for the human body. Our Israeli correspondents traveled to the fertile Beit Shean Valley near the Sea of Galilee to bring you this report. For many years man developed an agriculture believing that the key to plentiful crops lies in the use of pesticides and chemical fertilization. In Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu, farmers discovered that it is possible to cultivate crops without the use of chemicals. [Mario Levy, Agriculturalist, Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu]: "The organic agriculture is a different world perception. [Organic agriculture] is to walk along with nature. The earth is the source of human life and if for example we give earth a chemical fertilization, this breaks the natural equilibrium of the ground, since the ground is a living body, full of life. Every cubic centimeter of the ground." And what are the dangers in the use of chemical fertilizers or in pesticides that are not natural? [Mario Levy, Agriculturalist, kKbbutz Sde Eliyahu]: "It was found that the use of pesticides damages all the bodily systems of a human being. Everything -- the nervous system, asthmatic illnesses, liver, and worse of all, a man does not even feel that he is being hurt and he can give birth to children with disabilities and it is the greatest blame that no one seems to pay attention to. The second thing, that is not less important, is the imbalance that is caused to the plants by <b>...</b>

One kibbutz in Israel specializes in organic agriculture. The farmers there feel that chemicals are bad for the soil and for the human body. Our Israeli correspondents traveled to the fertile Beit Shean Valley near the Sea of Galilee to bring you this report. For many years man developed an agriculture believing that the key to plentiful crops lies in the use of pesticides and chemical fertilization. In Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu, farmers discovered that it is possible to cultivate crops without the use of chemicals. [Mario Levy, Agriculturalist, Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu]: "The organic agriculture is a different world perception. [Organic agriculture] is to walk along with nature. The earth is the source of human life and if for example we give earth a chemical fertilization, this breaks the natural equilibrium of the ground, since the ground is a living body, full of life. Every cubic centimeter of the ground." And what are the dangers in the use of chemical fertilizers or in pesticides that are not natural? [Mario Levy, Agriculturalist, kKbbutz Sde Eliyahu]: "It was found that the use of pesticides damages all the bodily systems of a human being. Everything -- the nervous system, asthmatic illnesses, liver, and worse of all, a man does not even feel that he is being hurt and he can give birth to children with disabilities and it is the greatest blame that no one seems to pay attention to. The second thing, that is not less important, is the imbalance that is caused to the plants by <b>...</b>