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Traditional Farming Practices and Its Consequences

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Traditional farming practices are based on the indigenous knowledge and experience developed over the centuries and have remained popular even now. Common traditional farming practices include agroforestry, intercropping, crop rotation, cover cropping, traditional organic composting, integrated crop-animal farming, shifting cultivation, and slash-and-burn farming. Although there are many benefits involved with these practices, such as improved soil fertility, carbon sequestration, resource utilization, biodiversity maintenance, sustainability, and environment protection, there are also certain negative implications associated with some practices such as slash-and-burn activities in shifting agriculture. Traditional farming is getting global attention for being a source of sustainable food production in times of environmental degradation and need for safe food production.

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  • Traditional
  • Soil
  • Crop
  • Farming
  • Environment

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  1. Mountain Livestock Research Institute, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Manasbal, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    H. Hamadani, J. D. Parrah, K. A. Dar & R. A. Dar

  2. Faculty of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Shuhama, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    S. Mudasir Rashid, A. A. Khan, A. A. Ganie & Aarif Ali

  3. Division of Veterinary Biochemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences (SKUAST-K), Shuhama, Alusteng, Srinagar, India

    S. Mudasir Rashid

  4. Plant Breeding and Genetics, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Shalimar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

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Hamadani, H. et al. (2021). Traditional Farming Practices and Its Consequences. In: Dar, G.H., Bhat, R.A., Mehmood, M.A., Hakeem, K.R. (eds) Microbiota and Biofertilizers, Vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61010-4_6

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