Impact of Organic Farming on Sustainable Agriculture System and Marketing Potential:  A Review

Patle, G. T.; Kharpude, Sudhir Narayan; Dabral, P. P.; Kumar, Vishal

doi:10.9734/ijecc/2020/v10i1130270

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“…Traditional farming practitioners are facing some problems such as biomass and residue burning, bare and long fallow phase, injudicious cultivation, mining of soil fertility, careless cropping and irrigation practices [50]. These problems can be overcome by following recommended management practices such as conservation tillage, cover and nurse cropping, crop rotation, integrating climate resilient trees and crops with livestock, efficient cropping and irrigation practices, mulching, proper use of resources and sensible use of off-farm inputs [50]. Some studies compared the adaptation and benefits of these two forms of AF practices [50,51].…”

Section: Amalgamation Of Traditional and Improved Af Practices To Enh...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These problems can be overcome by following recommended management practices such as conservation tillage, cover and nurse cropping, crop rotation, integrating climate resilient trees and crops with livestock, efficient cropping and irrigation practices, mulching, proper use of resources and sensible use of off-farm inputs [50]. Some studies compared the adaptation and benefits of these two forms of AF practices [50,51]. Studies reported nearly threefold increase in annual income and diverse benefits from improved AF practices as compared to traditional AF practices [51].…”

Section: Amalgamation Of Traditional and Improved Af Practices To Enh...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Agroforestry Assisted Natural Farming in India: Challenges and Implications for Diversification and Restoration of Agroecosystem

Dinesha

Raj²,

Bhanusree³

et al. 2022

IJECC

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The Government of India is promoting natural farming (NF) which is evolved from our ancient heritage and traditional cultivation practices. Though NF has many advantages, it is facing several challenges like low yield in initial years, expecting high outputs from low cost of cultivation, lack of local cultivars and livestock, less availability of tree based diverse inputs, dependency on purchase or exchange inputs from other farm hold and dispute in farming type and crop composition. On these backdrops, sustainable and/or resilient agroforestry (AF) systems can be synergized by using principles and practices of AF with NF. This AF assisted NF hybrid model is helpful in diversification and restoration of agroecosystem. AF includes at least one livestock components along with perennial trees and agricultural crops. Trees and livestock based NF is the foremost nature based solution (NBS) for climate change mitigation, food security and land degradation neutrality. In NF, to prepare various plant protection formulations neem, pongamia and various perennial species byproducts are essential which can be substituted by tree components in AF. It also provides continues supply of inputs for jeevamrut and beejamrut preparations along with continuous biomass mulching through nitrogen fixing trees. In addition, AF assisted NF practices reduce methane emission from ruminating livestock by reducing heat stress and increasing the feed quality. Some studies on NF have indicated that yield levels were drastically reduced in several cropping systems. Instead of integrating tree and animal components, these studies focused solely on the multi-location evaluation of various cropping systems. Therefore, it would be premature to recommend its wide-spread adaption or adoption prior to scientific validation of this NF. This review provides detail information and implications of AF assistance in NF and recommends preferentially, climate resilient, economical, native and naturalized trees and livestock incorporation, along with amalgamation of traditional and improved AF practices.

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Section: Amalgamation Of Traditional and Improved Af Practices To Enh...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Amalgamation Of Traditional and Improved Af Practices To Enh...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Agroforestry Assisted Natural Farming in India: Challenges and Implications for Diversification and Restoration of Agroecosystem

Dinesha

Raj²,

Bhanusree³

et al. 2022

IJECC

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“…Organic agriculture avoids the use of synthetic inputs and is based mainly on crop rotations, the use of animal manure (e.g., chicken manure, bovine manure, etc.) and crop residues as soil improvement and nutrient-mobilizing and plantprotecting biological systems (Patle et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The purpose is to position agriculture within a holistic context and recover its humanistic condition (Horrigan et al, 2002). However, it is worth acknowledging de nutrientes y protección de plantas (Patle et al, 2020).…”

Section: Modelos De Producción Agroalimentaria Para La Nutrición Y La Saludmentioning

confidence: 99%

Microbial genetic resources in food security to face COVID-19 pandemic

Zelaya-Molina¹,

Santos-Villalobos²,

Chávez-Díaz³

et al. 2021

RMF

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COVID-19 has had an impact on the regional and worldwide agricultural value chain, jeopardizing food security. It is time to reassess the approach of the agri-food sector and to consider that the food supply and plant health, as agrosystemic services, must depend on strategies with a low impact on productive and environmental assets. One strategy is the use and optimization of microbial genetic resources (MGR) related to agroecosystems as a source of balance, functionality, productivity, inhibition of the impact of pests and pathogens, and contribution to the profitability of agri-food activity. It is necessary to strengthen and develop regional agricultural systems that are dynamic, that mitigate damages to the environment and produce nutritional and nutraceutical foods that ensure human health. Agricultural sciences are undergoing changes in scientific paradigms that will benefit the agri-food sector if we are able to learn from the impacts of an extensive technological agriculture. Approaching agriculture from an agro-systemic point of view in which the crop-community is the functional biological unit of study and to preserve the MGR diversity are the greatest challenges to create sustainable and resilient strategies and technologies that contribute towards human health and help prevent risks during health crises such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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“…For instance, in Mexico, the milpa system with the simultaneous planting of different varieties of native corn in association with other crops, the practices of minimum tillage, and the zero presence of agrochemicals, have maintained a very high diversity of animals, plants, and microorganisms in the soil of the ecosystem (Rocha and Gastélum, 2020); which allows the soil associated with maize to present a dynamic microbial diversity on short-term scales (Rebollar et al, 2017). The ecological farming system avoids the usage of synthetic supplies and is principally based on crop rotation and incorporation of crop residues, fertilizers of animal origin, organic farm waste, and biological systems of nutrient cycling and plant protection, increasing nutrient and antioxidant content in crops (Patle et al, 2020;Petkova et al, 2020). This system considers plants as part of a complete system within nature and is based on the improvement of biological diversity in the field to alter the habitat of pests and Based on high inputs of agrochemicals which alter the microbiota associated with the plan.…”

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Agricultural Genetic Resources as a Source of Resilience in the Face of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Mexico

Sandoval-Cancino

Zelaya-Molina

Ruiz-Ramírez

et al. 2021

Trop Subtrop Agroecosyst

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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic evidenced the fragility of the agri-food sector by affecting the food supply chains which directly depend on the health of its main actors. In this context, countries need to rethink the agricultural production models, considering environmental and human health as priorities to achieve food safety. Aim: Systematically review the state of the art regarding the role of agricultural genetic resources as a source of resilience in the face of events such as the present pandemic as a point of reflection for the identification of opportunities for the restructuring of regional agriculture sensitive to nutrition for health. Methodology: Exhaustive search and analysis of documentary information regarding the effects of COVID-19 on the agri-food sector and the role of agricultural genetic resources in the current pandemic were conducted. Then, through an analysis of the occurrence and association of the main terms addressed in the literature considered, the thematic axes were drawn to address the central discussion of the systematic review. Results: Terms co-occurrence analysis corroborated the relevance and pertinence of the topic addressed. Additionally, the importance of the conservation of agricultural genetic resources and implementation of sustainable agriculture models, as a source of resilience to pandemics, was visualized. The discussion addressed the impact of the pandemic on the Mexican agri-food sector and the restructuring of post-COVID-19 agriculture through the nation and nutrition-sensitive agriculture for health approaches. Implications: The exhaustive analysis of the relationship COVID-19-agricultural genetic resources-health in Mexico highlights the need for the generation of agricultural policies and the increase in multidisciplinary research that favors biodiversity as a source of sustainability, productivity, and health for agroecosystems and the welfare of humanity. Conclusions: A fatalistic scenario for humanity seems to be dissipating in the face of the possibilities of rethinking the economic, social, and agricultural systems from the approaches of the nation and nutrition-sensitive agriculture for health, where, through the responsible use of agricultural resources it is possible to rebuild an agri-food production system with a tendency to resilience to events such as the current pandemic caused by the COVID-19 disease.

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Impact of Organic Farming on Sustainable Agriculture System and Marketing Potential: A Review

Cited by 17 publications

References 127 publications

Agroforestry Assisted Natural Farming in India: Challenges and Implications for Diversification and Restoration of Agroecosystem

Agroforestry Assisted Natural Farming in India: Challenges and Implications for Diversification and Restoration of Agroecosystem

Microbial genetic resources in food security to face COVID-19 pandemic

Agricultural Genetic Resources as a Source of Resilience in the Face of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Mexico

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