Sentences with phrase «minimum tillage»

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that minimum tillage, improved crop varieties, and more judicious use of fertilizers and agri - chemicals had helped farmers increase the margin between inputs and outputs, but I'm not sure there aren't other factors at play, as well.

Another tool in the soil conservation toolkit — and a relatively new one — is conservation tillage, which includes both no - till and minimum tillage.

Minimum tillage with biological nutrient recycling, as opposed to plowing and chemical fertilizers, could sequester 0.4 — 1.2 GtC / year [176] while conserving water in soils, building agricultural resilience to climate change, and increasing productivity especially in smallholder rain - fed agriculture, thereby reducing expansion of agriculture into forested ecosystems [177]--[178].

Environmentally - friendly methods like crop rotation, inter-cropping, symbiotic associations and minimum tillage are used to improve soil, encouraging natural formation and structure and creating more stable systems.

Soil building practices such as crop rotations, inter-cropping, symbiotic associations, cover crops, organic fertilizers and minimum tillage are central to organic practices.

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Among these are shifting from conventional tillage to minimum - till and no - till, the more extensive use of cover crops, the return of all livestock and poultry manure to the land, expansion of irrigated area, a return to more mixed crop - livestock farming, and the forestation of marginal farmlands.

About 91 % of farmers are practicing the technology at different levels depending on the component adopted out of the six, namely minimum land tillage; laying out fixed planting basins; no burning of crop residues; planting and input application in basins; and rotation with nitrogen - fixing crops for soil fertility restitution, outlined by the Conservation Farming Unit (CFU).