Ecological Management of the Nitrogen Cycle in Organic Farms

Nitrogen availability is among the major limiting factors for production of organic crops. A central goal farming, according to certification standards, rely on ecological and biological principles build maintain soil health. most complex nutrient elements with respect its different chemical forms flow within environment at soil, microbial, plant, aquatic, atmospheric levels. Because, from an perspective, all variables farm are interrelated, a challenge scientists practitioners better understand cycles how particular practices may improve N during stages crop growth while minimizing potential environmental losses that lead contamination groundwater aquatic habitats or undesirable greenhouse gas emissions. Here, based selected review literature, we evaluate level present key ecologically-based management strategies be adopted internal cycles. Given location-specific nature ecosystem interactions, participatory agroecology approach proposed incorporates knowledge indigenous traditional cultures design resilient socially-equitable systems.