Organic agricultural practices
Subtitle: alternatives to conventional agricultural systems
By: edited by Kimberly Etingoff
Publisher: Apple Academic Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Toronto; [Waretown,] New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9781771880824
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Organic farming
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Organic agricultural results compared with conventional agriculture. Evaluating the sustainability of a small-scale low-input organic vegetable supply system in the United Kingdom / Mads V. Markussen, Michal Kulak, Laurence G. Smith, Thomas Nemecek, and Hanne Ostergard; title: Soil organisms in organic and conventional cropping systems / Wagner Bettiol, Raquel Ghini, José Abrahão Haddad Galvão, Marcos Antônio Vieira Ligo, and Jeferson Luiz de Carvalho Mineiro; title: Localizing the nitrogen imprint of the Paris food supply: the potential of organic farming and changes in human diet / G. Billen, J. Garnier, V. Thieu, M. Silvestre, S. Barles, and P. Chatzimpiros; title: Comparative growth analysis of Callistephus Chinensis L. using vermicompost and chemical fertilizer / Dulal Chandra Das; title: Comparison of the farming system and carbon sequestration between conventional and organic rice production in West Java, Indonesia / Masakazu Komatsuzaki and M. Faiz Syuaib; title: Part II: Biofertilizers. Residual influence of organic materials, crop residues, and biofertilizers on performance of succeeding mung bean in an organic rice-based cropping system / Mohammadreza Davari, Shri Niwas Sharma, and Mohammad Mirzakhani; title: Evaluation of biofertilizers in irrigated rice: effects on grain yield at different fertilizer rate / Nino Paul Meynard Banayo, Pompe C. Sta. Cruz, Edna A. Aguilar, Rodrigo B. Badayos, and Stephan M. Haefele; title: Effects of fertilizer and plant density on yield and quality of anise (Pimpinella Anisum L.) / Mahdi Faravani, Behjat Salari, Mostafa Heidari, Mohammad Taghi Kashki, and Barat Ali Gholami; title: Microbial diversity of vermicompost bacteria that exhibit useful agricultural traits and waste management potential / Jayakumar Pathma and Natarajan Sakthivel; title: Part III: Plant cultivars in organic agriculture. Characteristics important for organic breeding of vegetable crops / Jasmina Zdravkovic, Nenad Pavlovic, Zdenka Girek, Milan Zdravkovic, and Dejan Cvikic; title: Collaborative plant breeding for organic agricultural systems in developed countries / Julie C. Dawson, Pierre Riviere, Jean-Francois Berthellot, Florent Mercier, Patrick de Kochko, Nathalie Galic, Sophie Pin, Estelle Serpolay, Mathieu Thomas, Simon Giuliano, and Isabelle Goldringer; title: Phenotypic changes in different spinach varieties grown and selected under organic conditions / Estelle Serpolay, Nicolas Schermann, Julie Dawson, Edith T. Lammerts van Bueren, Isabelle Goldringer, and Veronique Chable; title: Part IV: Environmental effects of organic agriculture. Soil enzyme activates, microbial communities, and carbon and nitrogen availability in organic agroecosystems across an intensively-managed agricultural landscape / Timothy M. Bowles, Veronica Acosta-Martinez, Francisco Calderon and Louise E. Jackson; title: Nitrate leaching from intensive organic farms to groundwater / O. Dahan, A. Babad, N. Lazarovitch, E.E. Russak, and D. Kurtzman; title: Improving nitrogen use efficiency in crops for sustainable agriculture / Bertrand Hirel, Thierry Tetu, Peter J. Lea, and Frederic Dubois.