farming systems
Improved sugar-cane farming systems
... Although significant improvements to nitrogen management in the sugarcane industry have occurred with the ‘Six Easy Steps’ program (Schroder et al. 2005), the understanding of processes and management of nitrogen in ...
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Genetic Improvement of Livestock for Organic Farming Systems
... different farming systems with divergent to those of a standard model where the different feeding strategies or at different nutritional environment defined as herd-year-season subclasses levels within the ...
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Organic farming systems as a driver for change
... "Organic farming systems as a driver for change" this paper presents examples from Danish research, where energy inputs and outputs are compared for organic and conventional farming ...
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Managing soil fertility in organic farming systems
... Organic farming, soil fertility, soil structure, crop nutrition, crop rotation, crop health.. Soil fertility is fundamental in determining the productivity of all farming systems..[r] ...
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What is the contribution of organic agriculture to sustainable development? Long term farming systems comparisons in the tropics
... Farming systems comparisons in the tropics Enhanced know-how on advantages and limitations of different agricultural production systems in three tropical countries contributes to sustain[r] ...
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Human resources in the technological innovation of farming systems for sheep production in the west of Mexico
... higher rates of innovation. This helps to confirm that age is not associated, directly, with the application of technological innovations in the farming systems, but it does allow to think that young ...
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Social-cultural Functions of Rice Farming Systems
... rice farming system absorbs labor ...rice farming systems absorb 128,58 workdays/ha/planting seasons or ...rice farming system as a labor absorber showed at Table ...organic systems is ...
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An assessment of farmer’s perception on the adoption of local species in the farming systems of the Sudano Sahelian zone of Cameroon
... The probability of adopting the different species in local farming systems as reported by the farmers is presented in Table 6. Arachis hypogaea and Hibiscus sabdarifa were placed highest by respondents with ...
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Cropping solutions for the sugarcane farming systems of the Burdekin
... dominant farming systems of the Burdekin district in Queensland ...sustainable farming systems and grow complementary crops such as pulses in the sugarcane ...
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Integrated Cotton Farming Systems for Central Queensland
... cropping systems, rotations, double/opportunity cropping options, varietal selection, cropping in water limited situations, ...mixed farming systems involving cotton and other field ...
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Energy use in organic farming systems (OF0182)
... Excel spreadsheet. A worksheet was created for each crop or livestock enterprise involved in the farming systems to be modelled. All inputs were detailed on these sheets and links established to the input ...
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Issues in evaluating sustainability of farming systems with indicators
... Many indicators are available at field and farm level as it comes out from the overview given in this article. However, for example, water quality indicators should be used at the scale of the water catchment or for a ...
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Differences between organic and conventional farming systems in Czech Republic
... of farming focused on the extensive production and maintenance of the countryside and the other environmental services is the crucial point of a successful development of competitive and economical (from the point ...
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Exploring the multifundtional role of farming systems
... During a number of years our research group has investigated how farmers could include environmental issues in their management practices with the aim of fulfilling, on the one hand, their own goals and, on the other, ...
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Livestock breeds and Organic farming systems
... Organic livestock farming has grown in Wales in recent years. It is focused on producing animals from a predominantly forage-based system, with an emphasis on maintaining animal health through improved welfare and ...
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Dairy farming in Uganda Production Efficiency and Soil Nutrients under Different Farming Systems
... ve systems although overall farm benefi ts/hour were below the profi t maximization in all systems except zero-grazing (Figure ...ed systems being least averse to risk and farmers in the more ...
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Measure and comparison of economic, social and ecological sustainability of farming systems in the Marvdasht plain
... supporting systems consisting of 95 factors that are selected as basic indices at the provincial ...new systems of agricultural sustainability indicators that stretch beyond the discrete measurement of ...
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Smallholder Peri-Urban Organic Farming in Nepal: A Comparative Analysis of Farming Systems
... organic farming in particular, are more profitable and sustainable due to nearby large populations, relatively lower transportation costs, and low postharvest losses (Midmore & Jansen, ...
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Profitability of Organic Farming Systems
... The returns from a stockless system are reduced in two ways. The first is the cost of sowing and managing a red clover based sward. The second is that there is no crop for sale while this crop is in place. The most ...
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Dairy Farming Systems’ Adaptation to Climate Change
... the systems (land, agronomic, feeding and labour requirements, grazing systems, risk profit), and the new constrain CO 2-eq emissions-following the assumption, as has been explored earlier, that cattle ...
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