On organic coffee farm, complex interactions keep pests under control

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - 13:28 in Physics & Chemistry

(PhysOrg.com) -- Proponents of organic farming often speak of nature's balance in ways that sound almost spiritual, prompting criticism that their views are unscientific and naďve. At the other end of the spectrum are those who see farms as battlefields where insect pests and plant diseases must be vanquished with the magic bullets of modern agriculture: pesticides, fungicides and the like.

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