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Agriculture | A systematic approach to farming intended to reduce agricultural pollution, enhance sustainability, and improve efficiency and profitability. Overall, alternative agriculture emphasizes management practices that take advantage of natural processes (such as nutrient cycles, nitrogen fixation, and pest-predator relationships), improve the match between cropping patterns and agronomic practices on the one hand and the productive potential and physical characteristics of the land on the other, and make selective use of commercial fertilizer and pesticides to ensure production efficiency and conservation of soil, water, energy, and biological resources. Examples of alternative agricultural practices include use of crop rotation, animal and green manures, soil and water conserving tillage systems, such as no-till planting methods, integrated pest management, and use of genetically improved crops and animals. Consonant with sustainable agriculture, alternative agriculture focuses on those farming practices that go beyond traditional or conventional agriculture, though it does not exclude conventional practices that are consistent with the overall system. (references) |
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Synonym: ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURESynonym: Alternative farming systems. (additional references) |
Crosswords: ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE |
| Specialty definitions using "ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE": AARCC ♦ Conventional agriculture. (references) |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 4C 54 45 52 4E 41 54 49 56 45 41 47 52 49 43 55 4C 54 55 52 45 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01001100 01010100 01000101 01010010 01001110 01000001 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101 00100000 01000001 01000111 01010010 01001001 01000011 01010101 01001100 01010100 01010101 01010010 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A L T E R N A T I V E   A G R I C U L T U R E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 004C 0054 0045 0052 004E 0041 0054 0049 0056 0045 0041 0047 0052 0049 0043 0055 004C 0054 0055 0052 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)354654395248355443563923541524337554654555239 |
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