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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/1.1/xsd/JATS-journalpublishing1-mathml3.xsd" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.1" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">isrdo-SRJAV</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="pmc">isrdo-SRJAV</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">isrdo-SRJAV</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Scientific Research Journal of Agriculture and Veterinary Science</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher" pub-type="epub">SRJAV</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn>2584-1416</issn><publisher><publisher-name>ISRDO</publisher-name><publisher-loc>Gujarat,India</publisher-loc></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">M-10094</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="categories"><subject>Farming</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>An In-Depth Analysis of Green Valley Organic Farm's Organic Farming Methods and Obstacles: A Case Study</article-title></title-group><contrib-group content-type="authors"><contrib id="125" contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name><given-names>Ronak Nandanwar</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1">1</xref><aff id="aff-1"><label>0</label><institution>University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign</institution><country>United States</country></aff></contrib><contrib id="126" contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name><given-names>Meet Mahajan</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2">2</xref><aff id="aff-2"><label>1</label><institution>University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign</institution><country>United States</country></aff></contrib></contrib-group><contrib-group content-type="editors"><contrib contrib-type="editor"/></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub" data-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2024-07-22"><day>22</day><month>07</month><year iso-8601-date="2">2024</year></pub-date><volume>2</volume><elocation-id>V2-I1-2024</elocation-id><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2024-06-30"><day>30</day><month>06</month><year iso-8601-date="2024">2024</year></date><date date-type="revised" iso-8601-date="2024-07-15"><day>15</day><month>07</month><year iso-8601-date="2024"/></date><date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2024-07-15"><day>15</day><month>07</month><year iso-8601-date="2024"/></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#xA9;2024 Ronak Nandanwar Year Corresponding Author</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2024</copyright-year><copyright-holder>Ronak Nandanwar</copyright-holder><license href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (ISRDO) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution License</ext-link></license-p></license></permissions><self-uri href="https://isrdo.org/journal/SRJAV/currentissue/an-in-depth-analysis-of-green-valley-organic-farms-organic-farming-methods-and-obstacles-a-case-study"/><abstract><p>Central&#xD;
Valley, California's Green Valley Organic Farm, is the subject of this case&#xD;
study, which delves deeply into the complexities of organic farming. This&#xD;
organic and CCOF-certified 150-acre farm has operated since 2005 and grows various&#xD;
fruits, vegetables, and herbs. The research objectives are to determine how&#xD;
well organic farming methods work, what obstacles exist when trying to control&#xD;
weeds and pests, how feasible the practice is financially, how it affects the&#xD;
environment, and how consumers see it. Data-collecting techniques used include&#xD;
farm record analysis, customer surveys, field observations, and interviews with&#xD;
farm owners and staff. Organic farming has its advantages, including better&#xD;
soil health and more biodiversity, but it also has drawbacks, such as labor-intensive&#xD;
weed care and higher production costs. The research found that market forces&#xD;
and customer demand for organic goods will determine organic farming's&#xD;
financial viability, even though organic farming offers substantial health and&#xD;
environmental advantages.</p></abstract><kwd-group kwd-group-type="author"><kwd>Organic Farming</kwd><kwd> Soil Management</kwd><kwd> Pest Control</kwd><kwd> Economic Viability</kwd><kwd> Environmental Impact</kwd><kwd> Consumer Perception</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement>The authors did not receive any specific grants from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or non-profit sectors for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><back><sec sec-type="data-availability"><title>Data Availability</title><p>Not applicable</p></sec><sec sec-type="COI-statement"><title>Conflicts of Interest</title><p>All authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.</p></sec><sec sec-type="author-contributions"><title>Authors&#x2019; Contributions</title><p>The author confirms sole responsibility for the following: study conception and design, data collection, analysis and interpretation of results, and manuscript preparation.</p></sec><sec sec-type="funding-statement"><title>Funding Statement</title><p>The authors did not receive any specific grants from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or non-profit sectors for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.</p></sec><sec sec-type="software-information"><title>software-information</title><p>Not applicable</p></sec><ack><title>Acknowledgments</title><p>I thank the following individuals for their expertise and assistance in all aspects of our study and for their help in writing the manuscript. I am also grateful for the insightful comments given by anonymous peer reviewers. Everyone's generosity and expertise have improved this study in myriad ways and saved me from many errors.</p></ack><ref-list content-type="authoryear"><ref id="1"><label>1</label><element-citation publication-type="journal"><p>-</p></element-citation></ref></ref-list></back></article>
