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Stuck in the mud
A new green agriculture label may take on organic
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IS ORGANIC farming really as green as its reputation? Certainly, nobody can fault rotating crops and planting what grows best in a given area, but ordinary farmers also use such methods.
Organic farming fundamentally rests on two sets of practices. One is limiting the use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides.
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