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  2. Tillage - Wikipedia

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    Tillage is the agricultural preparation of soil by mechanical agitation of various types, such as digging, stirring, and overturning. Examples of human-powered tilling methods using hand tools include shoveling, picking, mattock work, hoeing, and raking.

  3. Minimum tillage - Wikipedia

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    Minimum tillage is a soil conservation system like strip-till with the goal of minimum soil manipulation necessary for a successful crop production. It is a tillage method that does not turn the soil over, in contrast to intensive tillage, which changes the soil structure using ploughs .

  4. Cropping system - Wikipedia

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    Different types of tillage result in varying amounts of crop residue being incorporated into the soil profile. Conventional or intensive tillage typically leaves less than 15% of crop residues on a field, reduced tillage leaves 15–30%, and conservation tillage systems leave at least 30% on the soil surface. [ 10 ]

  5. Soil management - Wikipedia

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    Tilling the soil, or tillage, is the breaking of soil, such as with a plough or harrow, to prepare the soil for new seeds. Tillage systems vary in intensity and disturbance. Conventional tillage is the most intense tillage system and disturbs the deepest level of soils. At least 30% of plant residue remains on the soil surface in conservation ...

  6. Tilth - Wikipedia

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    The tilth created by tillage, however, tends to be unstable, because the aggregation is obtained through the physical manipulation of the soil, which is short lived, especially after years of intensive tillage. [4] The compaction of soil aggregates can also decrease soil biota due to the low levels of oxygen in the top-soil.

  7. No-till farming - Wikipedia

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    No-till farming (also known as zero tillage or direct drilling) is an agricultural technique for growing crops or pasture without disturbing the soil through tillage. No-till farming decreases the amount of soil erosion tillage causes in certain soils, especially in sandy and dry soils on sloping terrain.

  8. Two-wheel tractor - Wikipedia

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    For agricultural production in the past and in the present, the two-wheel tractor accepts a wide range of implements for soil-working such as the: rototillers, moldboard plow, disc-plow, rotary plow, root/tuber harvesting plow, small subsoiler plow, powered and non-powered harrow, seeders, transplanters, and planters ( zero till and no-till ...

  9. Tillage erosion - Wikipedia

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    Eroded hilltops due to tillage erosion. Tillage erosion is a form of soil erosion occurring in cultivated fields due to the movement of soil by tillage. [1] [2] There is growing evidence that tillage erosion is a major soil erosion process in agricultural lands, surpassing water and wind erosion in many fields all around the world, especially on sloping and hilly lands [3] [4] [5] A signature ...