Organic vegetable farms are not nutritionally disadvantaged compared with adjacent conventional or integrated vegetable farms in Eastern Australia

Scientia Horticulturae

Volumn 146, Issue , 2012, Pages 164-168

  Nachimuthu, Gunasekhar ^a,b   Kristiansen, Paul ^a   Guppy, Chris ^a   Lockwood, Peter ^a   King, Kathy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Phosphorus; Soil fertility; Vegetable farms

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; BIOMASS; COMPOST; CROP PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MANURE; ORGANIC FARMING; PHOSPHORUS; RUNOFF; SANDY SOIL; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL NUTRIENT; VEGETABLE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84866150033     PISSN: 03044238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2012.08.022     Document Type: Article

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