no-tillage

Some trends, such as the shift to no-tillage, are making agriculture less oil-intensive, but rising fertilizer use, the spread of farm mechanization, and falling water tables are having the opposite effect.

The Oil Intensity of Food 2009

Gradually, research showed that diversified production and no-tillage growing were better for the health of the land.

Karl Kupers: Shepherd's Grain: Reconnecting Producers and Consumers Through a New Food System 2010

Gradually, research showed that diversified production and no-tillage growing were better for the health of the land.

Shepherd's Grain: Reconnecting Producers and Consumers Through a New Food System Karl Kupers 2010

Because of such studies, conservation tillage methods (with no-tillage the extreme) have increased by a factor of 3 from just 1989 to 1994.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2003

Other names are stubble mulching, ecofallow, limited/reduced/minimum tillage, no-tillage and direct drill.

1. Indigenous soil and water conservation in Africa. 1992

In the drier zones of the semihumid/semiarid climate no-tillage or a superficial soil preparation is practised due to the short vegetation period in order to complete the planting as rapidly as possible, as is done in most of Senegal.

Chapter 9 1991

Soil fertility is influenced positively by means of no-tillage under mulch cover whereby soil temperature fluctuations are reduced and higher temperatures are avoided.

1. Labour productivity and distribution 1991

Where soils tend towards compaction, as in most of Senegal, soil preparation could be more favourable than soil-conserving no-tillage to achieve a better root penetration and thus a higher yield.

1. Labour productivity and distribution 1991

There is an absence of soil preparation exclusively in a few regions where no-tillage is practised as in Senegal.

Chapter 9 1991

However, the farmers here prefer minimal soil tillage with a chisel plow or no-tillage in unprepared soil due to the short vegetation period.

Chapter 9 1991