Download or read book On the Level written by and published by . This book was released on 194? with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contoured Acres Fight written by United States. Soil Conservation Service and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains principles of contour plowing; stresses the need for soil conservation and increased food production as part of the struggle to win World War II.
Download or read book Sustainable Water Management in Smallholder Farming written by Sara Finley and published by CABI. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water is critical to all human activities, but access to this crucial resource is increasingly limited by competition and the effects of climate change. In agriculture, water management is key to ensuring good and sustained crop yields, maintaining soil health, and safeguarding the long-term viability of the land. Water management is especially challenging on smallholder farms in resource-poor areas, which tend to be primarily rainfed and thus highly dependent on unreliable rainfall patterns. Sustainable practices can help farmers promote the development of soils, plants and field surfaces to allow maximum retention of water between rains, and encourage the efficient use of each drop of water applied as irrigation. Especially useful for farmers' groups, agricultural extension workers, NGOs, students and researchers working with farmers in dryland areas, this comprehensive yet concise book is a practical and accessible resource for anyone interested in sustainable water management.
Download or read book Contour Farming for Soil and Water Conservation written by Claude H. Van Vlack and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In order to keep Iowa soils from becoming less fertile and from being washed away, it is necessary that every farmer develop and carry out a program of soil and moisture conservation for his farm. This program need not be complicated. Any Iowa farmer can, by following practical methods, keep his soil fertile and in place. Every acre of a farm should be planned to produce its maximum income in whatever crop it is adapted to produce. Soils on level areas can be kept fertile by proper crop rotation and necessary soil treatments. Rolling land should be handled the same way except that as it becomes steeper other practices must be adopted to keep the soil from washing away. Some lands must remain in pasture, while those less fertile areas which are becoming eroded should be planted by trees. Many rolling Iowa lands farmed to intertilled crops are losing topsoil in spite of the use of long rotations having the minimum amount of intertilled crops. Other practices, such as contour tillage, strip cropping and terracing, are being recognized by Iowa farmers as necessary and practical These practices alone will not solve the problem of soil and water loss. By combining all of the necessary principles and practice of soil and moisture conservation as the apply to each individual farm, Iowa land can be kept productive." -- p. 323
Download or read book Contour Farming and Strip cropping written by Gary W. Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Food Security for African Smallholder Farmers written by Hupenyu Allan Mupambwa and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a synthesis of current agricultural research in Africa with the aim of presenting evidence based information that can be directly applied into improving the African smallholder farmers’ food security. It presents positive scientific research that has been undertaken in Africa, in simpler terms, thus driving the research for development agenda contributing to the attainment of SDG 2. Numerous research that targets resource poor African smallholder farmers has been published, yet the region faces very low productivity levels. This lack of translation from research to food security and increased agricultural incomes is due to the poor uptake of scientific research by farmers, which is partly due to poor presentation of this body of knowledge into simpler forms that extension workers and farmers can directly adopt. Therefore, this book offers research information in an easy, digestible and application oriented style, so as to enable transformation of the African agricultural sector by effectively driving agricultural productivity in Africa. This book is of interest to African extension workers, who will translate the simplified knowledge into lessons that can be useful to smallholder farmers. The book is also beneficial for policy makers as well as academics, researchers and other science based professionals.
Download or read book AD13E Water harvesting and soil moisture retention written by and published by Agromisa Foundation. This book was released on 2003 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agrodoks provide practical information on small-scale sustainable agriculture in the tropics.
Download or read book Strip Cropping for Conservation and Production written by Harold Everett Tower and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Management of Soil Problems written by Khan Towhid Osman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soils are neither good nor bad, but some have inherent or acquired characteristics that may or may not suit our intended use. Unsuitable characteristics are considered to be soil problems, soil constraints or soil limitations. Only twelve percent of global land is right for agricultural production without much limitation. Some soils have severe limitations for crop production. These soils are so called ‘problem soils’. Many of them do not have enough fertility to be productive; some are arid and saline; some are very sandy and dry; and some are wet and waterlogged for most of the growing season. The global demand for food, wood, fuel, fiber, medicine and other plant products for the 7.2 billion current world population has created such an immense pressure on global soil resources that even the most fertile soils are losing their productive capacity. We are being compelled to bring more and more unsuitable or marginally suitable soils under cultivation. Unless innovative and integrated soil, crop and environmental management practices are adopted for their improvement and sustainable use, further degradation is inevitable. This book, Management of Soil Problems, identifies the problems and discusses management options in a smooth and reader-friendly style. It will be useful for students and professionals of soil science, agriculture, forestry, geography and environmental sciences.
Download or read book Farmers Bulletin written by United States. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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