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Organic farming: A sustainable agricultural practice
Vantage Journal of Thematic Analysis, 2022 The agriculture sector faces multiple challenges in meeting the growing food demand of an ever-increasing population. Conventional farming is one of the most widely practiced approach due to its affordability and accessibility, but it is associated with ...
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Intercropping of legumes and cereals is an important management method for improving yield stability, especially in organic farming systems. However, knowledge is restricted on the relevance of different nutrient transfer pathways.
Anke Hupe +7 more
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Agronomy, 2023 The continuous cropping of cabbage or kidney bean results in a decrease in yield by influencing the soil environment. To decrease the damage caused by continuous cropping, ten treatments of cabbage–maize–cabbage (CMC), kidney bean–maize–cabbage (BMC ...
Tianle Wang, Xiaojuan Wang, Ling Xie
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Upper limits to sustainable organic wheat yields
Scientific Reports, 2021 Current use of mineral nitrogen (N) fertilizers is unsustainable because of its high fossil energy requirements and a considerable enrichment of the biosphere with reactive N. Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) from leguminous crops is the most important
Thomas F. Döring, Daniel Neuhoff
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Organic Farming Support Policy in a Sustainable Development Context: A Polish Case Study
Energies, 2021 This paper assesses the extent, scope and importance of financial support for Polish organic farming from 2004 to 2019. The analysis focuses particularly on how the changes in the amount and structure of organic farming payments affected farmers ...
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Impact of Daily Grazing Time on Dairy Cow Welfare—Results of the Welfare Quality® Protocol
Animals, 2017 Grazing provides livestock better opportunities to act out their species-specific behavior compared to restrictive stable conditions. The aim of the present study was to examine the effects of daily grazing time on welfare of dairy cows in organic and ...
Kathrin Wagner +6 more
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Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control, 2022 Background This study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of plant growth-promoting microbes on the foliar disease of organic tomatoes under protected cultivation. The biological control agents, viz., Trichoderma harzianum (T.
Gurudatt M. Hegde +3 more
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Organic Agriculture: Conventional farming vs organic farming
, 2020 Organic farming is the process of growing crops or livestock without any use of inorganic substances, viz, inorganic fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, growth hormones, or genetically modified organisms (GMOs). As the principle “feed the soil, not the plant” states, organic farming completely emphasizes on food security and soil health.
Nikumani Choudhury, Yadav, Arvind
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, 2021 The excessive application of chemical fertilizers in intensively managed agricultural fields worldwide has resulted in soil degradation and biodiversity loss.
Bingjie Yang +5 more
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Organic Farming Increases the Technical Efficiency of Olive Farms in Italy
Agriculture, 2021 While there is growing recognition of the positive role played by organic farming in the reduction of the negative externalities due to conventional agriculture, there is uncertainty about the effect of the latter on the economic performance of the farms.
M. Raimondo +3 more
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