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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] organics vs whatever
  • Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:21:26 -0600


see also
http://www.resurgence.org/selection/egziabher1005.htm

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July05/
organic.farm.vs.other.ssl.html
[this is a Cornell news service story on David Pimental's (Cornell
professor of ecology and agriculture) review of the Rodale studies]

http://orgprints.org/9783/
This was a study of basmati rice done at Indian Agricultural Research

Insititue in New Delhi, India. Main focus is which organic amendments
were useful, Relevant sentences to this purpose:
The rice grain yield (4.0 t ha-1) obtained under combined application
of four organic amendments was at par with the yield recorded under
recommended dose of chemical fertilizer application. An interesting
observation recorded was that there was no serious attack of any insect
pest or dis-ease in organically grown crop.


http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=5936
[from university of michigan, news release, "organic farming can feed

the world";
study by UMich researches Ivette Perfecto and Catherine Badgley says
yields almost equal in developed countries and production could double
or triple in developing countries with organic methods]


http://crops.confex.com/crops/wc2006/techprogram/P11639.HTM
[a study in India on groundnuts; organic produced 22% higher kernel
yield than cv, as well as other advantages. reported at the 18th World
Congress of Soil Science, 2006, in Philadelphia PA] [groundnut in this
case I believe means peanuts]






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