Keywords:
- soil
- pesticides
- farming systems
- environment
- ecosystem services
- experimental farms
- accumulation
- organic production
Abstract
Residues of pesticides can accumulate in the soils of conventional arable farms. In 2000, conventional cultivation was partly replaced by organic cultivation on two sections of a trial farm, without further use of pesticides. After 19 years, soil samples from conventional and from the two organic sections were analyzed for 664 pesticides. Of an adjacent nature reserve a soil sample was taken as comparison without any agricultural use.
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