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Cost and profit Analysis of Organic and Conventional Farming in Hungary [PDF]
Journal of Central European Agriculture, 2011 The object of this analysis was to compare the organic and the conventional farming on the basis of primer database and modeling at the location of Hortobágy that is a well-known organic farming region in Hungary.
Péter URFI +2 more
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Diversity and function of soybean rhizosphere microbiome under nature farming
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 Nature farming is a farming system that entails cultivating crops without using chemical fertilizers and pesticides. The present study investigated the bacterial and fungal communities in the rhizosphere of soybean grown in conventional and nature ...
Dominic V. A. Agyekum +11 more
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ORGANIC VERSUS CONVENTIONAL: ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF ORGANIC FARMING [PDF]
Scientific Papers Series : Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and Rural Development, 2013 Over the last years, organic food consumption has become one of the most popular trends amongst general public. The perception would be that organic food is much healthier for the consumer and that the farming practices used for producing the food are ...
Alexandra MUSCĂNESCU
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi have promising applications in low-quality farmlands all over the world, but research on their responses to conventional and organic farming systems in low-quality soil is limited.
Jiawei Chen +5 more
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Is Organic or Conventional Farming Better for Biodiversity?
Wirtschaftsdienst, 2022 This article compares the impact of organic and conventional farming on biodiversity. Two opposing effects are taken into account: the higher biodiversity of organic farming and the lower land use of conventional farming. An evaluation of both effects on
Rainer Maurer
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ROOFTOP FARMING: AN ALTERNATIVE TO CONVENTIONAL FARMING FOR URBAN SUSTAINABILITY
Malaysian Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 2019 In ecological terms, modern cities consume 75% of world resources with 2% of global land area and have become a parasite and a resource sink. Unmanaged planning and rapid development often result in the destruction of natural resources and loss of greenery.
Jha Ritesh Kumar +4 more
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Comparison of Organic and Conventional Agriculture in the Czech Republic: A Systematic Review
AgricultureThis systematic review aims to comprehensively examine publications that compared conventional and organic agriculture in the Czech Republic. Agriculture in the Czech Republic is unique because of considerable variability in natural and climatic ...
Hana Vašková, Pavel Saska
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Effect of pesticide types on community structure of arthropod in soy crops
Jurnal Entomologi Indonesia, 2015 This study was carried out on three soybean farms located in the Liverpool Plains Shire in New South Wales, Australia. The soybean farms were different in terms of pesticide type used.
Dwi Ristyadi, Nigel Andrew, Rachel Waugh
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Yield variation and yield potential of organic arable crops in Finland derived from statistical data
Agricultural and Food ScienceThis study aims to expand and diversify the analysis of crop yields in organic production by utilising the long-term statistical data reported by farmers. We examined the variation of the harvested yields of organic arable crops (season’s ad hoc harvest)
Sari Iivonen +3 more
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Sustainability Assessment of Rice Farming: Insights from Four Italian Farms Under Climate Stress
AgricultureThe study compares the overall sustainability of two organic and two conventional rice farming systems during the 2022 drought. The research aimed to develop an experiment exploring the ability of an integrated methodological approach to identify ...
Savoini Guglielmo +6 more
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