Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

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]