A speech on Organic and Sustainable Agriculture in Asia | 1996

By Roger Blobaum, October, 26, 1996 In a 1911 book entitled ‘Farmers of Forty Centuries,” F.H. King, retired chief of USDA’s Division of Soil Management, described how farmers in Asia had farmed the same fields for 4,000 years without destroying their fertility. L. F. Bailey, in the preface to this agricultural classic, said the book’s…

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A paper titled Organic Food and Farming; Development of Ecologically-Sound Agriculture Around the World 1993

Organic Food and Farming; Development of Ecologically-Sound Agriculture Around the World By Roger Blobaum, World Sustainable Agriculture Association 1993 Abstract. This paper reports on the growth of organic agriculture in many parts of the world, continuing attempts to define organic food and farming, trends in the development of international organic food markets, factors responsible for…

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