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Recent increases in agricultural productivity have largely been attributed to the availability of high-yielding varieties, farm irrigation and agrochemical inputs. However, many of the inputs and practices of intensive agriculture have remained detrimental to human health, environmental quality and biodiversity conservation. The shortage of intensive modern agriculture requires “agriculture rethinking”...
China
Journal article
2016
It is undoubted that biodiversity and its’ ecosystem services have significant importance for agricultural landscapes. The semi-natural habitats are the indispensable covers in agro-landscape, which maintain higher biodiversity because they provide refuge, foods and breeding place. To meet the demands of a growing human population, agricultural systems have been enlarged...
China
Journal article
2016
The history of diversified cropping can be dated back to the era of man’s evolution that followed hunting and gathering, and this form of cropping has stood the test of times to be still an important farming practice in modern agriculture. In recent years, to control insect pests using diversified...
China
Journal article
2016
At present, the application of buffer strips is becoming increasingly important in the development of modern eco-agriculture both at national and international scales. With proper design and construction, farmland buffer strips (e.g., field margins, wild flower strips, hedgerows and shelterbelts) can provide various ecosystem and landscape services, including erosion prevention,...
China
Journal article
2017
Integrated rice-crayfish system is a complex ecological system based on waterlogged paddy field cultivation characterized by crayfish fed by rice straw. Using rice monoculture system as the control, a 10-year (2005-2015) field experiment was conducted to study the effects of integrated rice-crayfish system on rice yield and soil physicochemical properties...
China
Journal article
2017
In 1979, Prof. Ma Shijun proposed the eco-engineering principles of "integration, co-ordination, circulation, regeneration and revitalization". Specially, he pointed out that eco-engineering was a production-technology system by which co-existence of species and revitalization of matters were applied with the best possible methods of systematic engineering and multi-level circulation. In 1987,...
China
Journal article
2017
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