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Organic Farming for Sustainable Soil Use, Management, Food Production and Climate Change Mitigation

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Organic farming or organic agriculture has been adopted as a new and sustainable agriculture technology due to its environmentally friendly nature and healthy produce. It is an efficient technology to conserve soil fertility and health, improve crop yield and quality and reduce carbon concentrations in the atmosphere. It is more efficient in its use of non-renewable energy and has less detrimental effects on water quality and biodiversity. Different strategies are employed in organic farming for crop production. It uses biosolids in organic manures and amendments and crop rotations, mulching, non-synthetic fertilisers, zero tillage, integrated nutrient, pest management, etc., for crop management and productivity.

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    Abdul Kareem, Zia Ur Rahman Farooqi, Waqas Mohy-Ud-Din, Muhammad Mahroz Hussain, Mohsin Raza & Muhammad Moaz Khursheed

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Kareem, A. et al. (2022). Organic Farming for Sustainable Soil Use, Management, Food Production and Climate Change Mitigation. In: Bandh, S.A. (eds) Sustainable Agriculture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83066-3_3

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