Organic farming indicates a traditional food production systems such as crop rotations, mixed cropping, mixed farming, organic manuring, residue recycling, agro-forestry systems which are amalgamated with modern practices of crop cultivation and livestock management to enhance profitability without dependence on off-farm resources. In orchid cultivation, organics are used as substrate media, as a component in plug plant production, in preparation of nursery for hardening of tissue culture plants, to improve the soil physical properties, as a soil drench of bulb soaking or foliar spray, in propagation of ornamental crops, and as a plant protection.
L.C. De
ICAR-NRC for Orchids, Pakyong, Sikkim, 737106, India
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