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by euroderf 474 days ago
> fungi overgrowth

Can you elucidate ?

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All plants i know get fungi, especially late in the dry and ripen stage.It reduces yield, is toxic and carcinogenic. So fungizides are deployed during the plants lifetime to keep the contamination in check and the product healthwise unproblematic. Organic farming does not have that option. So the fungi rate of some organic farms approaches a total loss. So they hug conventional farms to get the fungizide floatsome for a better result.
https://r.jordan.im/download/organic/lazzaro2015.pdf

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32835995/

it also depends on a lot of other factors (weather and crop rotation , but the key reasons are discussed )