Sentences with phrase «conservation tillage practices»

The United States — which over the last two decades retired one tenth of its cropland, most of it highly erodible, and shifted to conservation tillage practices — has reduced soil erosion by 40 percent.

She and her husband are also proud to be carrying on the family farm where they implement conservation tillage practices.

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Grow Ahead invites women from Africa, Asia or Latin America over 18 years of age to apply for scholarships of up to US$ 2,500 for workshops or trainings in their regions focused on agroecology or regenerative organic agriculture, including (but not limited to) agroforestry, biochar, compost, holistic management, conservation tillage, pasture cropping, silvopasture, permaculture, or other practices that build climate resilience.

It is considered as a holistic and dynamic approach of incorporating organic and permaculture farming practices including crop rotation, conservation tillage, composting, cover crops, pasture cropping, and mobile animal shelters to increases the farmer's income and food production.

Likewise, reduced tillage, cover crops, intensified cropping systems, and other conservation practices are known to build the soil long - term.

agroforestry, biochar, compost, holistic management, conservation tillage, pasture cropping, silvopasture, permaculture, and other climate resilient practices.

USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service, CORE4 Conservation Practices Training Guide: The Common Sense Approach to Natural Resource Conservation (Washington, DC: August 1999); Rolf Derpsch, «Frontiers in Conservation Tillage and Advances in Conservation Practice,» in D. E. Stott, R. H. Mohtar, and G. C. Steinhardt, eds., Sustaining the Global Farm, selected papers from the 10th International Soil Conservation Organization Meeting, at Purdue University and USDA - ARS National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory, 24 — 29 May 1999 (Washington, DC: 2001), pp. 248 — 54.

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).

Global efforts to address climate change can be supported through the uptake of best agricultural practices such as conservation tillage, and increases in productivity that protect carbon sinks from encroachment.