Environmental Benefits of Organic Farming

@inproceedings{Nejadkoorki2012EnvironmentalBO,
  title={Environmental Benefits of Organic Farming},
  author={Farhad Nejadkoorki},
  year={2012}
}
Predictions of human population and its requirements to generate new farmlands are unavoidable. On the other hand there have been significant concerns over threats of the agriculture expansion over the next 50 years globally. This is due to public concerns on quality of agricultural products and environmental concerns. Organic farming is kind of agricultural that provide the consumers, with fresh, tasty and reliable food while regarding natural life-cycle systems. There are tremendous… 
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