num_pages: 352
description: This book is a much-expanded and updated edition of a previous volume, published in 1996 as No-tillage Science and Practice . The base objective remains to describe, in lay terms, a range of international experiments designed to examine the causes of successes and failures in no-tillage. The book summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of no tillage. It highlights the pros and cons of a range of features and options, without promoting any particular product.Topics added or covered in more detail in the second edition soil carbon and how its retention or sequestration interacts with tillage and no-tillagecontrolled traffic farming as an adjunct to no-tillagecomparison of the performance of generic no-tillage opener designsthe role of banding fertilizer in no-tillagethe economics of no-tillagesmall-scale equipment used by poorer farmersforage cropping by no-tillagea method for risk assessment of different levels of machine sophisticationCo-published with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
language: English
title: No Tillage Seeding in Conservation Agriculture
titlecomplete: No Tillage Seeding in Conservation Agriculture (Cabi Publishing)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: CABI