A Market-Based Economic Instrument to Better Use Water in Agriculture

The paper presents a market-oriented system of returnable guarantees that can be combined with tradable permits to encourage farmers to use alternative sources of water instead of the regular watering network, or to steer the farming system toward environmentally-friendly systems like low tillage and/or organic farming. Factual data from real farming were bootstrapped to test whether or not a set of farms could save water and reduce chemical input due to the higher cost of maintaining the status quo. Based on interactions between water, pesticides, fertilizers, and crops, the system of returnable guarantee determines the farmers to reduce the amount of water harvested from aquifers, generates benefits for the most environmentally-friendly farmers, and stimulate conversion to organic farming.

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Wildlife and Farming: Towards a Reconciliation

Outlook on Agriculture ◽

10.1177/003072709602500104 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 11-17

Author(s):

R. Thornton Smith ◽

M. A. Atherden ◽

S. R. Eyre

Keyword(s):

Community Participation ◽

Organic Farming ◽

Industrial Revolution ◽

Status Quo ◽

Ecological Approach ◽

Agricultural Systems ◽

The Status ◽

Environmental Measures ◽

Organic Produce ◽

The Relationship

Aside from the views of pioneer thinkers and romantics, perception of the relationship between agriculture and the countryside by the general public has changed this century from acceptance of the status quo, to increasing consciousness of environmental problems. Recent global and European initiatives now form the basis of a strengthened package of anti-surplus and agri-environmental measures, which give some support to the enhancement of biodiversity, for instance by the redesign of fields. More fundamentally, there needs to be a more ecological approach to agricultural systems, and in particular a shift towards organic farming. Prospects for the latter must depend on an increased market share for home-grown organic produce, while both organic farming and wildlife initiatives will in the longer term depend on wider community participation, thus reversing a trend set at the start of the Industrial Revolution.

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Faktor-Faktor yang Mempengaruhi Intensi Petani Ternate dalam Melakukan Pertanian Organik

Jurnal Ilmiah Membangun Desa dan Pertanian ◽

10.37149/jimdp.v5i3.12132 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 96

Author(s):

Ikhsan Fuady ◽

Mardianah Mardianah

Keyword(s):

Risk Perception ◽

Technology Acceptance ◽

Organic Farming ◽

Correlation Coefficient ◽

Organic Agriculture ◽

Environmentally Friendly ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Farming System ◽

Organic Fertilizers ◽

Organic Farming System

Organic farming is one alternative farming system that is environmentally friendly and sustainable. Various kinds of activities to accelerate the development of organic agriculture in the city of Ternate have been carried out, but the productivity of organic agriculture is still relatively low. Many factors affect the intention of farmers to conduct organic farming. This study aims to determine the factors that influence the intention of farmers to carry out organic farming, within the framework of the technology acceptance model (TAM) theory. The research method used is the quantitative method of the survey approach. The study population was members of farmer groups in Ternate. The sampling technique used is multistage cluster random sampling. The sample of this research were 46 farmers. The results showed that the intention of farmers to carry out organic farming 65.5 percent of high-categorized farmers. In its agricultural business, farmers have started to utilize environmentally friendly agricultural inputs such as compost, and also plant-based pesticides. Most farmers have been able to independently make organic fertilizers such as location fertilizer with MOL independently. For factors that influence farmers to do organic farming, among others, are farmers' perceptions of the benefits of organic farming, with a correlation coefficient of 0.845 and a significance of 0.007. Another factor influencing farmers' intention to do organic farming is risk perception with a correlation coefficient of 0.296 and a significance value of 0.000. Benefit perception refers to the farmer's view of how much benefit is gained by carrying out an organic farming system. While risk perception refers to the small risk obtained by conducting an organic farming system.

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Growing characteristics of apple cultivars in environmentally friendly growing systems

International Journal of Horticultural Science ◽

10.31421/ijhs/21/3-4./1159 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 21 (3-4) ◽

Author(s):

P. Dremák ◽

Á. Csihon ◽

I. Gonda

Keyword(s):

Organic Farming ◽

Environmentally Friendly ◽

Farming System ◽

Crop Load ◽

Apple Cultivars ◽

Production Value ◽

Organic Farming System

Nowadays the condition of the good saleability of the fruit is the application of controlled environmentally friendly technologies. Success of the growing is basically influenced by the production value of the cultivars, and their flexibility to the different technologies. In our examinations the effect of the integrated and organic farming system has been evaluated on the growing characteristics of the apple cultivars. According to our results the trunk thickness of the trees both in the initial and both in the later bearing period is higher in the integratedproduction compared to the organic farming system. This differences most likely caused by the variance of the crop load.

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