Resources Tagged: Soil Management
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This book was written to inform both the farming community and the environmentalist, ecologist, politicians, opinion-formers and the general public of the benefits of zero tillage, which establishes a strong link between the concerns of soil conservation and obligations to the envirnment.
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Soil resources depletion is a widespread, direct threat to the sustainability of agricultural production. Dramatic changes in soil managment concepts are needed to counter the threat. This manual proposes options for such changes, addressing a very broad variety of topics related to agricultural...
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Cropping systems, as well as timing, method of application and forms of fertilizer, can influence fertilizer efficiency. Although there are many factors which cause various practices to have different relative importance in different areas, the importance of having an actively growing root system...
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The Soul of Soil explains how soil organisms supply plants with the necessary nutrients at the right time, in the right form, and in the right amount. The goal of ecological soil management is to enhance conditions for the billions of microbes found in every gram of healthy soil, without reliance...
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1994-11-01 A collection of ideas identified from "Secrets of the Soil" to be shared with others to empower them. Compiled by Development Services Department, World Vision Australia 47 pages, illustrated
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2003-01-01 In this 7th Annual Report, the Soil Management CRSP describes how it enables customers to make better nutrient, carbon, water and overall land management decisions on a global scale. Project Year 7, Annual Progress Report 64 pages, illustrated
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Access Agriculture Training Video Contour hedgerows slow the speed of water coming down the slope and allow the water to infiltrate. They also allow the washed away soil and nutrients to settle out above the hedgerows. You can plant many different grasses, depending on what you need and what is...
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Over the past 2-3 years CFGB staff and partners have been developing and field testing CA training materials designed to be used at the farmer level. We are pleased that the African Conservation Tillage network has agreed to host these materials on their website athttp://caguide.act-africa.org/so...
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2013-01-01 Nursery Management: Tree Propagation and Marketing A Training Manual for Smallholder Farmers and Nursery Operatorsaims to facilitate the learning process by incorporating practical activites that provide better and clearer understanding of the principles involved in nursery establishment and...
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Emphasis is on the development and understanding of the relationship between the plant and its subterranean environment and the effect of modification of that environment on plant response.