contour farming การใช้

• Contour farming is considered an active form of sustainable agriculture.
• At one part of the property " contour farming was used " and experimentation tried.
• The SCS also helped individual farmers convert from planting straight-rows of crops to contour farming on terraced benches.
• "' Erosion controls "'have appeared since medieval times when farmers realized the importance of contour farming to protect soil resources.
• On steeper slopes and areas with greater rainfall, a procedure known as strip cropping is used with contour farming to provide additional protection.
• Contour farming is most effective when used with other soil conservation methods like strip cropping, terrace ( agriculture ) farming, and the use of a cover crop.
• Demonstrations showed that contour farming, under ideal conditions, will increase yields of row crops by up to 50 %, with increases of between 5 and 10 % being common.
• That catastrophe led to the creation of the Soil Conservation Service, which instituted conservation measures _ planting tree breaks, contour farming and other measures _ that are still, to a degree, practiced today.
• The administration of the colony was promoting a transition from horizontal farming which largely ignored terrain to contour farming which fits with the frame and women, who did most of the agricultural work, resisted the transition.