Sentences with phrase «cultivating nitrogen fixing»
Since organic farms are mostly mixed farms, integrating animal husbandry with crop production, using vast and diverse rotations, intercrops and green cover crops, and maintaining soil fertility by cultivating nitrogen fixing legumes, they display a higher diversity of domesticated species than conventional farms.
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We further fix nitrogen by cultivating legumes and burning fossil fuels, timber and crops.