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  2. Organic fertilizer - Wikipedia

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    Organic fertilizer. A cement reservoir containing cow manure mixed with water. This is common in rural Hainan Province, China. Note the bucket on a stick that the farmer uses to apply the mixture. Liming soil. Bone meal and meat meal can be added to soil to stimulate root growth and to release phosphorus. Organic fertilizers are fertilizers ...

  3. Marion Moon - Wikipedia

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    Marion Atieno Moon (born 5 December 1983) is a Kenyan organic farmer and managing director of Wanda Organic, [1] a company that improves farmer productivity using bio-organic fertilisers. [2] She was among seven recipients of a grant from the US Agency for International Development ( USAID ) under the Feed the Future initiative .

  4. System of Rice Intensification - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) is a farming methodology that aims to increase the yield of rice while using fewer resources and reducing environmental impacts. The method was developed by a French Jesuit Father Henri de Laulanié in Madagascar [1] and built upon decades of agricultural experimentation. SRI focuses on changing ...

  5. CO2 fertilization effect - Wikipedia

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    The CO2 fertilization effect or carbon fertilization effect causes an increased rate of photosynthesis while limiting leaf transpiration in plants. Both processes result from increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2). [2][3] The carbon fertilization effect varies depending on plant species, air and soil temperature, and availability ...

  6. Organic hydroponics - Wikipedia

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    Organic hydroponics is a hydroponics culture system based on organic agriculture concepts that does not use synthetic inputs such as fertilizers or pesticides. In organic hydroponics, nutrient solutions are derived from plant and animal material or naturally mined substances. [1] Most studies on the topic have focused on the use of organic ...

  7. Organic lawn management - Wikipedia

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    Organic lawn management or organic turf management or organic land care or organic landscaping is the practice of establishing and caring for an athletic turf field or garden lawn and landscape using organic horticulture, without the use of manufactured inputs such as synthetic pesticides or artificial fertilizers. It is a component of organic ...

  8. Agroforestry - Wikipedia

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    Maize grown under Faidherbia albida and Borassus akeassii near Banfora, Burkina Faso. Agroforestry (also known as agro-sylviculture or forest farming) is a land use management system that integrates trees with crops or pasture. It combines agricultural and forestry technologies.

  9. Organic farming - Wikipedia

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    Agriculture. Organic farming, also known as organic agriculture or ecological farming or biological farming, [1][2][3][4][5] is an agricultural system that uses fertilizers of organic origin such as compost manure, green manure, and bone meal and places emphasis on techniques such as crop rotation and companion planting.