Ecological apple production: A comparison of organic and integrated apple-growing

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 638, Issue , 2004, Pages 321-332

  Bertschinger, Lukas ^a   Mouron, Patrik ^a   Dolega, Ewa ^a   Höhn, Heinrich ^a   Holliger, Eduard ^a   Husistein, Alfred ^a   Schmid, Andi ^b   Siegfried, Werner ^a   Widmer, Albert ^a   Zürcher, Matthias ^a   Weibel, Franco ^b  

^a Swiss Federal Research Station for Fruit Growing Viticulture and Horticulture   (Switzerland)

^b Research Institute for Organic Farming   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Crop production; Malus domestica; Soil management; Sustainable apple production

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644764726     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2004.638.43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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