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Re:Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to organic farming has led to ... by i_haz_rabies on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @10:37AM (#28445397)
Soil is an ecosystem of insects and arthropods and fungi and bacteria. Soil that has been subjected to intensive agriculture is a dead ecosystem, little more than a substrate to hold NPK.
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