Organic farming defined

One purpose of this book is to help the organic farmer define how much milk or meat or cereal he can produce from clay or chalk land, and how this will vary according to temperature, rainfall and altitude. Farmers like to do better than their neighbours, or at least as well, producing more bales of hay per ha for example. But, particularly with organic farming, this is likely to be the case only if the... 

With the mandate to define organic farming being transferred from the private sector to the public sector, the sense of responsibility for the product s organic... 

Crop rotation is a system where different plants are grown in a defined sequence. The well-designed crop rotation is the basis of the success in organic farming. Continuous monoculture is unacceptable due to the increased pressure of weeds and pathogens and difficulties with maintaining soil fertility. Diversity of crops in... 

A habitat is defined as a place where organisms of a species are found periodically, whereas a biotope is a uniform and more or less bordered area which is the living space of a biocoenosis (ANL 1994). Agricultural land use generally interferes with wildlife habitats. However, the point of interest in this study is to identify differences between conventional and organic farming systems with reference to habitat diversity. 

On the basis of the material reviewed in this report, organic farming s contribution to achieving a defined level of environmental and resource use goals at lowest cost cannot be identified. 

Research Foundation (OFRF) in the United States of America (USA) defines organic farming... 

Niggli and Wilier (2001) define four stages in the development of organic farming research ... 

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