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Organic agriculture practices
Mean
SD
Minimum tillage
1.81
0.9
Crop rotation
1.80
0.7
Farm Sanitation
1.69
0.8
Intercropping
1.66
0.2
Green manure
1.60
0.9
Cover crop
1.55
0.8
Fire
1.53
0.6
Composting
1.60
0.4
Organic fertilizer
1.68
0.9
Animal manure
1.71
0.3
Mulching
1.79
0.6
Natural pesticides
0.36
0.6
Farm scaping
0.16
0.6
Bio control
0.13
0.3
Table 1. Distribution of the respondents by use of organic agricultural practices
Katyal (2000) reported the application of organic manure as the only option to improve the
soil organic carbon for sustenance of soil quality and future agricultural productivity. Wam‐
bani et al. (2006) compared the effect of farmyard manure application with recommended rate
of inorganic fertilizer and it was discovered that the recommended rate of organic manure was
the most profitable and preferred by the farmers because of their low cost, availability of
organic manure and longer persistence of kales under these treatments.
Cremer et al; (1996) showed that cover crop residues interfere with the emergence of weed
through the allelopathic effect. In addition, Langdale et al. (1991) concluded that cover crops
reduced soil erosion by 62 per cent based on a comparison of bare soil and soil planted with a
cover crop in the south eastern United States. Results presented for the use of Tithonia and
legume cover crops shows increase grain yields significantly in Eastern Uganda (Delve and
Jama, 2002). Moreover, Cover crops can improve soil quality (Dabney et al. 2001), and when
planted at the beginning of the transition phase, may provide essential soil-building properties
and improve weed suppression (Barberi 2002; Martini et al. 2004); however, soil quality effects
and ability of cover crops to suppress weed species varies among cover crop species (Melander
et al, 2005; Snapp et al, 2005).
The results further shows that the use of organic agricultural practice covered fire (1.53,
SD=0.6), composting (1.60, SD=0.4), organic fertilizer (1.68, SD=0.9) and animal manure (1.71,
SD=0.3). Wilson (2007) found that flame weeding also called flame cultivation or flaming, is a
thermal physical control method that is part of the National Organic Program (NOP) under
 
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