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Energy efficiency and soil conservation in conventional, minimum tillage and no-tillage
The objective of this research was to determine the capacity of a soil tillage system in soil conservation, in productivity and in energy efficiency.
Teodor Rusu
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Landownership and the Adoption of Minimum Tillage [PDF]
AbstractFull‐owner operators and landowners with small holdings have lower minimum tillage adoption rates on cultivated cropland than do other landownership groups after accounting for land quality and regional location. Nonfamily corporate structure does not significantly influence the adoption decision.
Linda K. Lee, William H. Stewart
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Participatory conservation tillage research: an experience with minimum tillage on an Ethiopian highland Vertisol [PDF]
Abstract Farmer participatory tillage trials were conducted in a highland Vertisol area of Ethiopia during the 1999 and 2000 cropping seasons. This participatory initiative clearly demonstrated that incorporating farmers’ knowledge, ideas and preferences could improve the wheat production package.
Astatke, A., Jabbar, M.A., Tanner, D.
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Does Minimum Tillage Improve Smallholder Farmers’ Welfare? Evidence from Southern Tanzania
Conservation agriculture continues to be promoted in developing nations as a sustainable and suitable agricultural practice to enhance smallholder productivity. A look at the literature indicates that this practice is successful in non-African countries.
Maurice Osewe +2 more
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STUDIES REGARDING MINIMUM SOIL TILLAGE [PDF]
Research goal was to gather data regarding soil tillage, operations with agricultural implements and machines to alter soil features and to guide vegetation factors (water, air, heat, nutrients and biological activity) thus developing optimum conditions ...
Anișoara DUMA COPCEA +2 more
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Comparison of alternative tillage systems [PDF]
The aim of the project was to compare the performance and the costs of alternative tillage systems and machinery, in both energy and economic terms. To determine the energy requirements of tillage implements, experimentation in field conditions and ...
Vozka, Petr
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The effects of minimal tillage, contour cultivation and in-field vegetative barriers on soil erosion and phosphorus loss. [PDF]
Runoff, sediment, total phosphorus and total dissolved phosphorus losses in overland flow were measured for two years on unbounded plots cropped with wheat and oats.
Quinton, John N. +5 more
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A field experiment was conducted during kharif season of 2019 at the Research Farm, Department of Agronomy, CSKHPKV, Palampur to study the effect of tillage and fertilizer doses on growth and growth indices of soybean under conservation tillage systems ...
Shilpa Manhas +4 more
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Minimum tillage practices affect disease and yield of lettuce
Vegetable growers have been experimenting with reduced tillage practices to increase soil organic matter, limit compaction, and reduce fuel and labor costs.
Louise Jackson +3 more
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