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The opportunities to grow the ‘organic pie’ are substantial for both China and Australia. However the challenges and the opportunities are far from identical, although the goals of growing the production area, increasing the market... more
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      Food SafetyEnvironmental StudiesSustainable agricultureAustralia
Rudolf Steiner's Agriculture Course at Koberwitz (now Kobierzyce), in the summer of 1924, was the gateway event that led to the development of biodynamic agriculture and, subsequently, organic agriculture. The present paper identifies for... more
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      HistoryEnvironmental ScienceAnthroposophyOrganic agriculture
The Smart Greenhouse is prototype implementation of a remotely controlled and monitored greenhouse. Using an Internet of things (IoT) - based communication and control technology the Smart Greenhouse enables an automatic control of... more
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      Precision AgricultureMedicinal PlantsGreenhousesOrganic Farming
Nutritional value of plant purely depends on the methodology of cultivation. (Urmila Sarkar and Surendra Sawardekar) Different methods of cultivation lead to prior proficiency of plant growth in terms of germination, height, weight,... more
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      BotanyNutrition and DieteticsMolecular BiologyOrganic agriculture
Organic farming offers an alternative that can eliminate many of the environmental problems of conventional agriculture in the industrialized world. Instead of using petroleum-derived chemicals to fertilize and protect crops, farmers... more
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      Organic FarmingCrop ProductionOpen SpaceGreen Manure
The field experiment was conducted at Birsa Agricultural University during winter (Rabi) season of 2017-18 with the objective to evaluate the growth parameter, yield attributes, yield and economics of wheat variety HD2967 under precision... more
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      Water ManagementOrganic FarmingBiofortification
Abstract: This paper explores consumer understanding and perception of organic food, with specific reference to the relatively new concept of organic farmed salmon. Key themes associated with the term “organic” and its meaning, as... more
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      BusinessAnimal WelfareMultidisciplinaryOrganic Farming
três repetições e sete cultivares: Franciscana IPA-10 (roxa), Vale Ouro IPA-11 e Brisa IPA-12, (Empresa Pernambucana de Pesquisa Agropecuária-IPA), Alfa Tropical (Embrapa Hortaliças), Alfa São Francisco (ciclo VIII) e Alfa São... more
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      Organic FarmingGrowthCrop YieldCultivars
The organic farming system follows various principles of natural ecosystem which is based on the structural and functional relationships of natural ecosystems. The food production historypresume that organic farming was the predominant... more
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      BusinessOrganic Farming
Organic agriculture aims to build soil quality and provide long-term benefits to people and the environment; however, organic practices may reduce crop yields. This long-term study near Mead, NE was conducted to determine differences in... more
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      MathematicsOrganic Farming
Tomato plants were grown in the greenhouse in the soil, in confined beds, or in combined beds where the roots could also develop in the soil outside the bed. The beds were filled with compost based on clover grass hay, deep litter and... more
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      ChemistryBiologyAnimal ProductionFood Science and Technology
Citation/Export MLA Ronak Mistry, Kishan Malaviya, Harsh Kotak, Harshil Bhatt, Urvi Patel, “A Novel Approach to Autonomous Farming Robot”, April 15 Volume 3 Issue 4 , International Journal on Recent and Innovation Trends in Computing and... more
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      EngineeringElectronic EngineeringRoboticsControl Systems Engineering
In this chapter, we discuss how, as a cultural anthropologist and archaeol-ogist, we have moved toward a vision of public anthropology with partner-ships of many kinds, centrally involving the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) in the Finger Lakes... more
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      Organic FarmingCommunity OrganizationSecondary School
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      Human GeographyApplied EconomicsOrganic Farming
Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) as a result of the legumes-rhizobia symbioses is the main source of nitrogen in organic farming systems. Lucerne (Medicago sativa L.), used as green manure or as forage legume, is important on arable... more
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      Life SciencesOrganic FarmingNitrogen FixationWater use efficiency
The presence of Salmonella and Campylobacter spp. in rodents and insectivores (n ‫؍‬ 282) was investigated on organic farms. Infections were encountered in house mice (8 of 83 Campylobacter positive and 1 of 83 Salmonella sp. strain... more
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      MultidisciplinaryRodentiaAnimal HusbandryOrganic Farming
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      BiologySeed productionOrganic FarmingGrass and Forage Science
Cotton farmers in many developing countries are facing decreasing marginal returns due to stagnating yields and high input costs. Conversion to organic management could offer an alternative. In a two year comparative study in central... more
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      Organic agricultureComparative StudyOrganic FarmingDeveloping Country
Natural toxins, such as mycotoxins, have emerged as a significant factor affecting the safety image of cereal grains as a raw material for the food and feed industry. The aim of the present study was to investigate the contents of... more
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      Organic FarmingAgricultural foodNorthern HemisphereNitrogen Fertilizer
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      Organic agricultureSustainable agricultureAgricultural PolicyMultidisciplinary
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      ManagementMicrobiologySoilCarotenoids
The research programme called "international research cooperation and organic integrity" was commenced for a period 2006-2010. It is coordinated by DARCOF (The Danish Research Centre for Organic Farming). The whole programme, with acronym... more
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      Organic agricultureOrganic FarmingFossil FuelsSoil Fertility
The objective of this work was to evaluate the effect of organic and conventional coffee crops on biomass, population density and diversity of earthworms, in Lerroville, district of Londrina County, Paraná state, Brazil. Earthworm... more
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      BiomassForest FragmentationOrganic FarmingPopulation Density
For a very long time, agricultural policy has been interested only in productive or economic aspects. Nevertheless, interventions aiming to support farmers’ income or to promote agricultural modernisation have resulted in several... more
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      Sustainable agricultureAgricultural PolicyPerformance AssessmentOrganic Farming
• La modalité « fumier » a répondu positivement à la minéralisation et montre ainsi des courbes d'évolution de la matière organique et de l'azote minéral qui présentent des variations et des valeurs relativement élevées, contrairement à... more
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      Organic FarmingNatural Fertility Methods
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      Environmental microbiologyAgricultureMultidisciplinaryOrganic Farming
Soil microbial biomass plays important roles in nutrient cycling, plant-pathogen suppression, decomposition of residues and degradation of pollutants; therefore, it is often regarded as a good indicator of soil quality. We reviewed more... more
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      Microbial diversityBiological SciencesOrganic FarmingEnvironmental Sciences
The aim of organic agriculture is to produce food of high nutritional quality in sufficient quantity. Field experiments were conducted to evaluate the effect of organic and conventional growing systems on (i) total amounts and supply of N... more
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      Environmental ScienceAgronomyAgricultureOrganic Farming
Commercial horticulture in many regions of the world depends upon Sphagnum peat as a potting-media substrate, but extracting peat has serious environmental consequences. Composts may be able to serve as effective substitutes for peat and... more
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      Environmental ScienceHorticultureClimate ChangeFood Systems
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      Human GeographyApplied EconomicsOrganic Farming
The production of cocoa in Sao Tome and Principe is invariably linked to the country's history. Since the colonial times until the independency, since the Agrarian Reform and during the following rural restructuring programs, cocoa crop... more
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This study determined the profile of agricultural extension workers in the municipalities of San Jose, Magsaysay, Rizal, and Calintaan (SAMARICA), Occidental Mindoro; their technology transfer modalities utilized in extending organic... more
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      AgricultureAgricultural extensionOrganic Farming
Organic certification, especially for smallholders, often uses group certification procedures. An internal control system (ICS) visits all farmers, and then the external certification body (CB) inspects a sample to assess the ICS'... more
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      Computer ScienceOrganic Farming
This article appeared in a journal published by Elsevier. The attached copy is furnished to the author for internal non-commercial research and education use, including for instruction at the authors institution and sharing with... more
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      Welfare StateBiologyAnimal WelfareAnimal Production
Conventional agriculture has had major environmental impacts, in particular with respect to soil degradation. Soil structure, fertility, microbial and faunal biodiversity have declined, and root diseases are common unless genetic... more
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      MicrobiologyMycologyBacteriologyOrganic agriculture
In organic farming, weeds are one of the threats that limit crop yield. An early prediction of weed effect on yield loss and the size of late weed populations could help farmers and advisors to improve weed management. Numerous studies... more
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      Organic FarmingQuantile RegressionWeed ManagementDensity dependence
Organic farming has become an important element of European agri-environmental policy due to increasing concern about the impact of agriculture on the environment. This book describes in detail the environmental and resource use impacts... more
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      Environmental ScienceOrganic FarmingFood QualityEcosystems
A produção agropecuária e florestal no Brasil apresenta um desenvolvimento crescente desde meados do século passado, mas a grande aceleração nesse desenvolvimento veio após o grande investimento em pesquisa, assistência técnica e crédito... more
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      Organic agricultureOrganic FarmingOrganic/natural crop and animal production
Organic agriculture has experienced remarkable growth in recent decades as societal interest in environmental protection and healthy eating has increased. Research has shown that relative to conventional agriculture, organic farming is... more
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      Climate ChangeFood SystemsAgricultureCarbon Sequestration
Background: China, a country that feeds 22% of the world's population with 7% of the world's arable land, not only thanks to the birth of high-yielding rice, fertilizer has also played a role in the development of agriculture, but the... more
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      AgricultureOrganic Farming
Review of Charles Massy, Call of the Reed Warbler
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      Landscape EcologySustainable agricultureLandscape HistoryAgroforestry
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      MicrobiologySoil ScienceData AnalysisBiological Sciences
"This paper analyses the Organic Food & Farming (OF&F) scientific domain dynamic throught a "progressive document co-citation analysis" based on peer-reviewed papers from Web of Science. The dataset of OF&F domain displayed an... more
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Conventional and integrated fruit growers, but not organic producers, have the possibility to use thinning agents (e.g. benzyl adenine), which allow crop regulation at a relatively late stage (10-16 mm fruit size). A few surveys have... more
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      PhotosynthesisBiologyAppleOrganic Farming
Sheep farming is an important and well-established activity in Greece, especially in mountainous and semi-mountainous areas. In these areas, organic sheep farming has recently experienced a significant increase, representing a promising... more
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      EconomicsAgricultural PolicyAnimal ProductionOrganic Farming
To reduce the environmental burden of agriculture, suitable methods to comprehend and assess the impact on natural resources are needed. One of the methods considered is the life cycle assessment (LCA) method, which was used to assess the... more
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      Life Cycle AssessmentEnergy ConsumptionAnimal HusbandryOrganic Farming
Opportunities to make sequential decisions and adjust activities as a season progresses and more information becomes available characterise the farm management process. In this paper, we present a discrete stochastic two-stage utility... more
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      Stochastic ProgrammingStochastic dominanceMultidisciplinaryRisk Analysis
Organic and other environmental and social marketing devices seek to connect producers and consumers more directly and reward environmentally and socially superior production systems. Some researchers have observed that these schemes may... more
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      MarketingSociologyHuman GeographyConsumer Economics
Inhana rational farming (IRF) technology was studied as an organic package of practice in farmers' field using green gram (Samrat: PDM-84-139) as test crop. The study was conducted at Binuria village in Birbhum district of West Bengal... more
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      MicrobiologyGeographyMathematicsSoil Science