Sustainable farming
Bio Fertilizer: A Promising Tool for Sustainable Farming
... This information is important for determining whether the soils could supply adequate nutrients for optimum crop production or not. Soil testing helps in understanding the inherent fertility status of the soil. ...
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Adoption of Rational Farming Technology for Development of a Model for Exploring Sustainable Farming Practice in Farmer’s Field
... Rational Farming (IRF) Technology was critically evaluated as a model of Sustainable Farming Practice in farmers’ field using okra (variety : Shakti - F1 hybrid) as test ...
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Sustainable farming with native rocks: the transition without revolution
... Agriculture use of the stonemeal technique has a good potential to improve food production along with social justice and environmental health if in- tegrated to political strategies committed to promot- ing regional ...
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Agroecology: The Future of Sustainable Farming?
... The growth of agroecology as a resistance movement in Brazil has generated new technological, cognitive, and sociopolitical innovations and has consequently enabled the re-imagining of a new political scenario. 17 The ...
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Production and Use of Compost and Vermicompost in Sustainable Farming Systems
... The swelling population of Dakar and the Cap Vert peninsula continues to have a pronounced effect on agriculture in the Thiès region. Consistent with urbanization trends throughout the developing world, rising land ...
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Central Queensland Sustainable Farming Systems - Phase 3
... Experimental evaluations and demonstrations were conducted to familiarise growers and project staff with the appli- cation, benefits and shortfalls of WeedSeeker technology for managing relevant and emerging weed issues ...
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Farming system preferences among selected municipalities of zamboanga del norte philippines: an extension movement implication
... to Sustainable farming and the remaining 500 or the ...Inorganic farming because they said that this system secured greater returns, more efficient, labor and cost effective as ...to ...
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Browse Title Index
... (i) sustainable plant composition and arrangement, and (ii) unsustainable into sustainable plant composition and ...more sustainable farming practices of agroforestry systems can actually be ...
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Sustainable horticulture: understanding barriers to the adoption of innovation
... of sustainable farming ...low-input farming (Sutherland, ...new farming method, but it is compromised by other factors, such as labour intensity, risk of low yields and uncertainty about one’s ...
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Voiceless but empowered farmers in corporate supply chains: contradictory imagery and instrumental approach to empowerment
... This section examines Unilever’s sustainability imaginary for the smallholder farmers within its supply chains. The central concept in Unilever's sustainability imaginary is ‘empowerment’. Unilever have constructed an ...
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The Potential of ecological farming in delivering social and economic development to small holder farming families (The Rwenzori experience)
... Ecological farming builds on the existing indigenous/traditional farming methods hence building the confidence among the farmers to use and own the ...
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NJF Seminar 495 4th organic Conference: Organics for tomorrow's food systems
... The main problems in organic farming are inadequate mineral nutrition, poor competition with weeds and susceptibility to yield failure due to pests and pathogens. Choice of production meth- ods such as good crop ...
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The wanted change against climate change: assessing the role of organic farming as an adaptation strategy
... Organic agriculture is a resilient system of agriculture that uses crop rotation, green manure, compost, biological pest control, and mechanical cultivation to maintain soil productivity and control for pests. Organic ...
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Optimistic determinism or explaining a miracle
... (by Downing) in 1996. In the domain of ‘geography’, the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers took the lead (by Briggs) in 1995, and one of the leading British geographers, Gould, singled out a summary ...
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Socio Economics and Policy Support Towards Enhancing the Organic Vegetables Industry in the Philippines
... organic farming as a key to sustainable agriculture was originally espoused by NGOs and peoples’ organizations as an off-shoot of the farmers’ experiences in the “green revolution era” which focused on the ...
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Nano-approach towards Sustainable Agriculture and Precision Farming
... Applications of nanotechnology in materials sciences and biomass conversion technologies applied in agriculture are the basis of providing food, feed, fiber, fire and fuels. In future, demand for the food will increase ...
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Traditional agriculture and rural living in Croatia : compatible with the new common agricultural policy?
... Earlier I described some of the characteristics that make Štitar family farming households resemble Netting's sustainable farmers. Now it is time to explain in more detail why they are smallholders and how ...
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Sustainable Organic Farming For Environmental Health: A Social Development Model
... agriculture. Sustainable agriculture is the implementation of the principles of sustainable ...development. Sustainable development will be achieved if conducted prior social development within the ...
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Sustainable development of smallholder crop livestock farming in developing countries
... Policies to promote the adoption of productivity-enhancing measures that will help improve the management of natural resources should be developed and enforced in developing countries. Improving the feed base through ...
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Is agroecology the most sustainable approach for all organic farming systems?
... CO2 emissions kg/kg produce 4 production systems x 5 handling & retail systems TOMATO – FRESH CONSUMPTION Index value ORG field + Regional, unpacked, box scheme ORG greenhouse + Regional[r] ...
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