Microbial community structure in organic farming and their management
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Microbial community structure in organic farming and their management
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Anandkumar Naorem
Shiva Kumar Udayana Jaison Maverick Puja Singh |
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organic farming
soil microbe management |
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Description |
The major challenge faced after green revolution is the conversion of sustenance type of farming to intensive agriculture with the use of high yielding varieties and massive loading of chemicals in the form of fertilizers and pesticides. This led to the shift of the primary goal from sustainable agriculture to profit generation. Overexploitation of natural resources under such farming practices led to “second generation problems” such as degradation of soil health and quality, groundwater pollution and its depletion, reduction of above and below-ground diversity. Using hybrid varieties under intensive farming gives higher yield and crop production. However, such new hybrids could adversely affect soil microbes which are the main driver of numerous soil ecosystem services like organic matter mineralization and nutrient cycling. Use of HYVs (high yielding varieties) coupled with a heavy dose of agrochem- icals, monocropping, and less crop rotation in cropping system under modern farming severely damage nutrient cycles by negatively affecting the establishment and functioning of soil microbes.
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2021-08-23T06:17:27Z
2021-08-23T06:17:27Z 2021-08-01 |
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Book chapter
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Anandkumar Naorem et al. (2021) Microbial community structure in organic farming and their management. In Meena VS et al. (eds.) Advances in organic farming: Agronomic soil management practices
9780128223598 http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/59097 |
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English
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Elsevier
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