Conservation agriculture is certainly complex, mainly because it is so diferent from ususal pratices.
I am in Portugal and we have a small group that uses thoses pratices with sucess.
No tillage is only one of the changes to be done, the main goal is to reduce erosion and improve organic material, while the microbiotic life and structure of the soils improve, including drainage. and maintain water through organic material.
Rotation crops is the right way to use a better soil.
My experience is that the whole system must be consistente with all these goals.
I mean that you must know that all depends on the quality of your soils and what you do can destroy or improve them., more or less rapidly.
For more than 20 years I have been trying to make compatible raising cattle, having them in my forest and producing grain..
If well done all this can pass from compatibility to complementarity and the system as a whole begins to work, with better and better soils.
But things are never simple and sometimes you have to correct excess of acidity, make drainage,...
Conservation agriculture is certainly complex, mainly because it is so diferent from ususal pratices.
I am in Portugal and we have a small group that uses thoses pratices with sucess.
No tillage is only one of the changes to be done, the main goal is to reduce erosion and improve organic material, while the microbiotic life and structure of the soils improve, including drainage. and maintain water through organic material.
Rotation crops is the right way to use a better soil.
My experience is that the whole system must be consistente with all these goals.
I mean that you must know that all depends on the quality of your soils and what you do can destroy or improve them., more or less rapidly.
For more than 20 years I have been trying to make compatible raising cattle, having them in my forest and producing grain..
If well done all this can pass from compatibility to complementarity and the system as a whole begins to work, with better and better soils.
But things are never simple and sometimes you have to correct excess of acidity, make drainage,...
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