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Organic farming aims to reduce the effect on the ecosystem and enhance biodiversity in agricultural areas, but the long-term effectiveness of its application is unclear. Assessments have rarely included various taxonomic groups with different ecological and economic roles. In paddy fields with different numbers of years elapsed since the transition from conventional to organic farming, we inves...

This study elucidates the entire methodology adopted for development of a scale to measure farmers’ attitude towards innovation use (AIU) in rice farming. To farmers farming, comprehensive list 30 statements was developed by thoroughly reviewing literature available and modifying some items from pre-existing scales. The this Likert-type were following criteria put forward Edwards Kilpatrick (19...

Food consumption has been identified as a realm of key importance for progressing the world towards more sustainable consumption overall. Consumers have the option to choose organic food as a visible product of more ecologically integrated farming methods and, in general, more carefully produced food. This study aims to investigate the choice for organic from a cultural–historical perspective a...

Rice-duck farming system is one of the means of organic rice farming, in which the weeds, diseases and insects could be effectively controlled with minimal or no pesticide and herbicide application. Whereas in conventional rice-duck farming system the controlling effect on diseases, insect pests and weeds was slowly disappeared after the rice heading stage at which ducks were driven out of the ...

organic agriculture, sometimes called biological or ecological agriculture, combines traditional conservation-minded farming methods with modern farming technologies .the purpose of this research was to identify management skills in development of organic agriculture in west azerbaijan province (iran) farms. the target population of this research included all agricultural experts who work in we...

Food Security in the Developing World 9 Can Local Organic Ag Feed the World? 11 The Myth of Scarcity 14 Indonesia’s “Food Shortage” 15 Can Organic Farming “Feed the World?” 16 Lessons from the Green Revolution 19 The Benefits of Small Farm Agriculture 22 From Shallow to Deep Organics 28 10 Reasons Biotech Won’t Redice Poverty, Ensure Food Security, or Protect Nature 30 Organic Farming Will Feed...