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Organic Arable Farming: Information for farmers considering conversion to organic production [PDF]
Is organic farming for you? Is it sufficiently profitable? What are the markets? Are livestock essential? Can weeds be controlled adequately in the long term? How do I go about conversion?
Organic, Farmers & Growers
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Immobilization of toxic metal cations on goethite-amended soils: a remediation strategy
The study investigates a simple and viable option to reduce toxic metals mobility and availability in four surface (0–30cm) soils with varying physicochemical properties amended by different percentages of goethite.
Ifesinachi I. Mokwenye +4 more
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Research Program for Organic Food and Farming in Finland [PDF]
The Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry started a three-year Research Programme on Organic Food and Farming in 2003. The programme consists of 15 projects on different themes covering the whole food chain and has an annual budget of about 2.2 ...
Nykaenen, Arja, Nykänen, Arja
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Attitudes and behaviour towards food attributes and organic food – a triangular methodological investigation of occasional organic consumers [PDF]
Organic food is increasingly available in the conventional food retail, where organic products are offered alongside with various other types of products and compete mainly with conventional and the so-called conventional-plus products.
Stolz, Hanna
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Strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duchesne ex Rozier) is an important small fruit grown worldwide. Organic amendments can alter microbial communities and increase crop productivity.
Tika B. Adhikari +3 more
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Tropical and subtropical acidic soils have been well documented as hotspots of global soil nitrogen (N) oxide (i.e., nitrous oxide (N2O) and nitric oxide (NO) emissions).
Zhaoqiang Han +5 more
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Organic Agriculture in the Czech Republic (Country Report 2011) [PDF]
The Czech organic farming is continuously growing and has reached almost 12 % of the farmland acreage in the Czech Republic. The main driving force in the development of the organic farming in the Czech Republic are subsidies; which led to the fact that ...
Urban, Jiri
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Biochar-Facilitated Soil Remediation: Mechanisms and Efficacy Variations
Recent research suggests that biochar amendment is a promising approach to mitigate soil contamination via immobilizing heavy metals and organic pollutants.
Mingxin Guo, Weiping Song, Jing Tian
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Coal is one of the fossil fuel non-oil that can be burned, from sedimentary, organic rock composed mainly of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. However, the use of coal still produces waste that remains to be addressed, such as fly ash. In the sugar industry,
Kisman Topani +2 more
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IntroductionThe intensive use of synthetic fertilizers in horticultural crops generates economic and environmental impacts, particularly in already degraded soils.
Russell Poma-Chamana +5 more
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