Organic lentil-spring wheat as a win-win association

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Lentil has been overlooked by organic farmers mainly because of low and unstable yields. Scientists Viguier et al. demonstrate that growing lentil in intercrop with low-density spring wheat under organic farming rules provides higher profitability than sole crops, despite additional costs associated with grain sorting.

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