Ridge farming for soil and water control... Strip cropping, terracing, contour planting, mulch tillage and contour listing are systems of land management which have been tested in Iowa....
Effects of cultivation techniques onmaize productivity and soil properties onhillslopes in yunnan province, china... Five treatments (1) Traditional + Downslope planting (control), (2) Traditional + Contour planting, (3) Traditional + Contour + Straw mulch, (4) Minimum tillage + Contour + Straw mulch and (5) Traditional + Contour + Polythene mulch, were selected for evaluation...
Loss of water and nutrients in different soil tillage systems subjected to natural rainfall in the state of mato grosso, brazil... Five experimental plots were established for the cultivation of cotton in the city of Campo Verde - MT, with the following treatments: CTDP = conventional soil tillage and planting of the cotton in the direction of the slope; CTCP = conventional tillage and contour planting; CP = tillage of soil with a disk harrow and a leveling harrow, followed by contour planting; CoP = tillage by two passes of a leveling harrow followed by contour...
Contour planting: a strategy to reduce soil erosion on steep slopes... The objective of this study was to investigate contour planting as a means to reduce soil erosion on steep slopes of the Columbia Plateau dryland wheat region....