Sentences with phrase «soil cover»

The water and nutrient retention capacity is increased thanks to a high level of organic matter and permanent soil cover.

India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are all dependent upon soil cover in the Himalayan region.

Measures such as reforestation, creating hillside terraces, maintaining continuous soil cover with vegetation and mulches, and reclaiming gullies can help protect the soil from heavy rain.

Conservation Agriculture has three basic principles: to minimise soil disturbance by tillage; to maintain continuous soil cover by plant mulches and cover crops; and to rotate crops of different plant genera (preferably including deep - rooting, nitrogen - fixing legumes).

101 Catch crops (intercrops) are sown after the harvest of the main crop in order to capture the nutrients and to provide soil cover.

The chief threats to water quality posed by agriculture are: high organic fertilization levels in combination with high stocking rates, the excessive application of mineral N - fertilizers; the lack of a protective soil cover; narrow crop rotations and frequent tillage; high levels of available nitrogen after harvest, and contamination of water with synthetic pesticides.

The wastebasket size and small liners are nice for storing soiled covers separately.

Bill Bollinger back then had his own indoor soil covering, Alighiero Boetti and Arte Povera had their classy poverty, and Mike Bouchet already mocked them all with his New York Dirty Room in 2005.

First, woody perennials are able to explore a larger soil volume for water and nutrients, provide better soil cover and reduce surface runoff, all of which will reduce the impacts of droughts and extreme rainfall.

When the site stopped collecting MSW, a low permeability soil cover was placed over the intermediate cover, which is between 8 and 20 feet thick today.

Improving water infiltration and retention capacity through high levels of organic matter and permanent soil cover, such as cover crops or mulch, which substantially reduce the amount of water needed for irrigation.

Soil cover with specially selected valuable crops, avoidance of erosion and desiccation, target - oriented organic fertilization, avoidance of competition for water in the area of the fine roots.

While in conventional agriculture in the tropics even flat soil gets eroded due to the use of herbicides and the lack of soil cover, in organic agriculture permanent soil cover is an intrinsic part the system.

All you need is a wool wash, a basin of lukewarm water, and your soiled cover... that's it!

Duclos said the soil cover work on the amphitheater is 90 percent done, although the county did not submit a final plan to DEC until last Friday.

Comparison to this real design and construction experience would prevent the Proponents from superficial assertions such as that soil covers require «20 years to construct».

Hospitals simply replace the outer case with a fresh one and toss the soiled cover in the laundry.

Back - fill the hole with the remaining soil mixture so that the shrub sits at the same level as it was growing in the pot - not so high that soil covers the base of the branches and stems, and not so low that the tops of the roots are exposed.