organic farming

noun

An approach to farming based on biological methods that avoid the use of synthetic crop or livestock production inputs and on a broadly defined philosophy of farming that puts value on ecological harmony, resource efficiency, and non-intensive animal husbandry practices.

Opposite
intensive farmingfactory farming
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Meanings

nounorganic farming (uncountable)
  1. uncountableagricultureAn approach to farming based on biological methods that avoid the use of synthetic crop or livestock production inputs and on a broadly defined philosophy of farming that puts value on ecological harmony, resource efficiency, and non-intensive animal husbandry practices.

    Another problem was that some organism groups have been studied more frequently than other because they are very relevant to organic farming, for example natural enemies of pests, such as carabids, and vascular plants (21% and 35% of studies regarding species richness, respectively).

    2005 March 14, Janne Bengtsson et al., “The effects of organic agriculture on biodiversity and abundance: a meta-analysis”, in Journal of Applied Ecology, volume 42, number 2, →DOI, page 246

Synonyms & antonyms

Opposite
intensive farmingfactory farming

Translations

Finnish luomuviljely, luomutuotanto
  • luomuviljelyapproach to farming based on biological methods
  • luomutuotantoapproach to farming based on biological methods
French agriculture biologique
  • agriculture biologiqueapproach to farming based on biological methods
German ökologische Landwirtschaft
  • ökologische Landwirtschaftapproach to farming based on biological methods
Hebrew חַקְלָאוּת אוֹרְגָּנִית
  • חַקְלָאוּת אוֹרְגָּנִית (khakla'út organít)approach to farming based on biological methods
Hungarian biogazdálkodás
  • biogazdálkodásapproach to farming based on biological methods
Italian agricoltura biologica
  • agricoltura biologicaapproach to farming based on biological methods
Polish rolnictwo ekologiczne
  • rolnictwo ekologiczneapproach to farming based on biological methods
Vietnamese nông nghiệp hữu cơ
  • nông nghiệp hữu cơapproach to farming based on biological methods
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Chicago

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