Basic principles of organic agriculture and the possibilities of their realization for forage production in the conditions of small farms

Farming by rules of organic agriculture, provides the ob- servance of the requirements and regulations excluding the use of synthetic chemical medicines of various direction and is based on the parameters and technologies providing pro- duction meeting ecological and other requirements imposed to organic production. Realization of the principles of organic agriculture is primary in the conditions of small farms. The purpose of the researches consisted in the definition of the possibility of realization of the principles of organic agriculture in the system of forage production. The research problems were to mark out basic principles of organic agriculture and the possibility of their realization for forage production in the conditions of small farms; to estimate the efficiency of forage crops cultivated taking into account the restrictions of organic agriculture in various agroecological conditions. In the study the data of field experiments made in various agroecological conditions of Krasnoyarsk Region with forage and grain and forage crops representing diet basis for cattle in the condi- tions of small farms are generalized...