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Handbook of Research on Agricultural Policy, Rural Development, and Entrepreneurship in Contemporary Economies

Is the ability of biological systems to preserve and develop biodiversity in the conditions of anthropogenic impact.

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Bio-Farming as the Basis of Environmentally-Sustainable Arable Farming at the Time of Global Warming

Olga Pasko (National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia), Natalia Staurskaya (Omsk State Technical University, Russia), Alexandr Zakharchenko (Institute of the Problems of Northern Development of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Russia), Valeriy Zharnikov (Siberian State University of Geosystems and Technologies, Russia), and Yuriy Larionov (Siberian State University of Geosystems and Technologies, Russia)

Source Title: Handbook of Research on Agricultural Policy, Rural Development, and Entrepreneurship in Contemporary Economies

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9837-4.ch003

Abstract

The concept of environmentally sustainable farming, in which the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is compensated by the accumulation of organic carbon in the arable horizon and deposited in the subsoil, is substantiated. The rationale for agrotechnical methods to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is given. Authors discuss new approaches to the management of soil fertility, plant productivity, and resistance of agrocenoses, based on the principles of bio-farming, the laws of soil fertility, root-circulation, and the management of edaphy and epiphytic processes. Their use allows one to improve soil fertility and purposefully increase the potential and effective resource of agricultural production. The large-scale implementation of the principles of bio-farming in agricultural production during the global warming requires the elaboration of special programs for the development of the agro-industrial complex, its geo-information support, including monitoring of land fertility using GIS technologies.

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