Abstract

Plants benefit from organic farming, particularly plants that are insect pollinated, annuals and rare. Around 20 percent greater diversity has been found on organic farms, when compared to conventional farms. Yet no difference was found between farms that had newly conver - ted to organic farming and those that had been organic for longer. Plant diversity benefited immediately from the change in farming system. This was down to ceasing to use herbicides, growing a wider variety of crops on the farms and that the stands of crops were thinner.

Keywords

Organic farming, biodiversity

Published in

Publisher: Centre for Organic Food and Farming (EPOK), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

SLU Authors

• Winqvist, Camilla

  • Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use
Food Science
Agricultural Science


Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/69679