Title of object

Using Cover Crops in Organic Agriculture

Object description

Cover crops have an important role in the success of organic production systems. Cover crops are used to supply fresh organic matter to soils, improve soil structure, cycle nutrients, protect soil from erosion and as a tool to manage weeds and other pests. Choise and management of cover crops depend on which benefits are the most important within the cropping system. Cover crops are legumes, cereals or an appropriate mixture. Recently, studies by universities and private researchers have ...

Language of object

Turkish

Author(s) / Publisher

Elmas Özeker Mine Ulutürk

Discipline(s)

Agriculture

Keywords

organic agricultural systems, cover crop, plant biomass, legumes, cereals

Technical format

Text

Intended end-user role

Other

Learning resource type

Technical information

Typical age range

18Ü

Copyright - Restrictions

This resource is licensed under the license(CC-BY-NC-ND) Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported

Cost with use

No

Source code available

No