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he 2 International Seminar of Science and Technology
“Accelerating Sustainable innovation towards Society 5.0”
ISST 2022 FST UT 2022
Universitas Terbuka

Tabel 1. The following table outlines the differences between conventional farming and Green
farming.
Conventional Agriculture Green Agriculture

Highly dependent on the advancement of It really depends on the management,
technological innovation knowledge and skills of farmers
Requires large capital investment for In general, it does not require a large capital
production and technology development investment
A fairly large/large scale of agriculture Small and medium scale farming
Cultivation system: monoculture Cultivation system: diversification
Minimizing the use of chemical fertilizers and
Extensive use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, switching them to natural fertilizers
pesticides
and pesticides
The costs incurred for labor wages are Labor costs are higher because more labor is
relatively low because only a small amount of needed
labor is needed
High dependence on the use of fuel for energy The use of fossil fuels in the production process
sources in agricultural production, fertilizer is relatively lower due to the minimal use of
production, packaging, transportation and agricultural machinery, does not produce
marketing chemical fertilizers, and in its marketing, there

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