Cereal crop (maize, sorghum and millet) yields in sub-Saharan Africa have decreased due to land degradation and climate changes. One of the main causes of soil degradation and the subsequent decline in crop yield is conventional tillage using hoes or mouldboard and disc ploughs. Conventional tillage and removal of crop residues leave the soil exposed to climatic factors like wind and rain, thus encouraging runoff and soil erosion. Conservation tillage is one way of converting degraded soils into productive soils, thereby improving crop yields and reducing land degradation. Conservation tillage is here defined as abandoning soil inversion (using the conventional mouldboard plough) in favour of alternative tillage systems that improve water infiltration and soil fertility. Conservation tillagesystems solve water and soil nutrient constraints by: 1) securing maximum infiltration of rainfall where it falls; and 2) enabling efficient soil fertility management by spot application of soil nutrients.
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TI - Conservation tillage II : handling and care of draught animals under Tanzanian conditions
AU - Atikah, T.
AB - Cereal crop (maize, sorghum and millet) yields in sub-Saharan Africa have decreased due to land degradation and climate changes. One of the main causes of soil degradation and the subsequent decline in crop yield is conventional tillage using hoes or mouldboard and disc ploughs. Conventional tillage and removal of crop residues leave the soil exposed to climatic factors like wind and rain, thus encouraging runoff and soil erosion. Conservation tillage is one way of converting degraded soils into productive soils, thereby improving crop yields and reducing land degradation. Conservation tillage is here defined as abandoning soil inversion (using the conventional mouldboard plough) in favour of alternative tillage systems that improve water infiltration and soil fertility. Conservation tillagesystems solve water and soil nutrient constraints by: 1) securing maximum infiltration of rainfall where it falls; and 2) enabling efficient soil fertility management by spot application of soil nutrients.
PY - 2003
PB - Regional Land Management Unit (RELMA)
PP - Nairobi, Kenya
UR - https://www.cifor-icraf.org/knowledge/publication/33724/
KW - animal health, animal husbandry, conservation tillage, disease control, domestication, draught animals, millet, ploughing, sorghum
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%T Conservation tillage II : handling and care of draught animals under Tanzanian conditions
%A Atikah, T.
%D 2003
%I Regional Land Management Unit (RELMA)
%C Nairobi, Kenya
%U https://www.cifor-icraf.org/knowledge/publication/33724/
%X Cereal crop (maize, sorghum and millet) yields in sub-Saharan Africa have decreased due to land degradation and climate changes. One of the main causes of soil degradation and the subsequent decline in crop yield is conventional tillage using hoes or mouldboard and disc ploughs. Conventional tillage and removal of crop residues leave the soil exposed to climatic factors like wind and rain, thus encouraging runoff and soil erosion. Conservation tillage is one way of converting degraded soils into productive soils, thereby improving crop yields and reducing land degradation. Conservation tillage is here defined as abandoning soil inversion (using the conventional mouldboard plough) in favour of alternative tillage systems that improve water infiltration and soil fertility. Conservation tillagesystems solve water and soil nutrient constraints by: 1) securing maximum infiltration of rainfall where it falls; and 2) enabling efficient soil fertility management by spot application of soil nutrients.
%K animal health
%K animal husbandry
%K conservation tillage
%K disease control
%K domestication
%K draught animals
%K millet
%K ploughing
%K sorghum
Publisher
Regional Land Management Unit (RELMA): Nairobi, Kenya
Publication year
2003
Authors
Language
English
Keywords
animal health, animal husbandry, conservation tillage, disease control, domestication, draught animals, millet, ploughing, sorghum
Geographic
Tanzania
