Mahdi Al-Kaisi, an assistant professor of soil management at Iowa State University, said farmers can benefit from conservation tillage whether they use biotech crops or not.
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Food production is determined by a variety of factors including land ownership and use; soil management; crop selection, breeding, and management; livestock breeding and management; and harvesting.
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King left Wisconsin to become chief of the Division of Soil Management in the USDA Bureau of Soils in Washington, D . C . in January 1902.
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The Government of Gujarat, to improve soil management and introduce farmers to new technology, started on a project which involved giving every farmer a Soil Health Card.
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He helped Peru improve its rice yields in the 1970s and then developed a soil management program for western Brazil, helping bring into production 75 million acres of cropland.
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Edaphology or crop edaphology in combination with soil management would be the preferred approach used by soil scientists to concisely describe soil science as it applies to crop production.
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Researchers and farmers are investigating and improving ways of farming which are more sustainable, such as agroforestry, forest farming, wildlife-friendly farming, soil management, catchment-sensitive farming ( or water-friendly farming ).
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External pressure due to the use of heavy machinery and inappropriate soil management can lead to the compaction of subsoil, creating impermeable layers within the soil that restrict loss of biodiversity.
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Such challenges include the beneficial reuse of human and animal wastes using agricultural crops; agricultural soil management aspects of preventing water pollution and the build-up in agricultural soil of chemical pesticides.
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One notable soil management technique was intercropping, planting subsistence crops between the rows of cash crops, which demanded of the slaves skilled and experienced observations of growing conditions for efficient land use.
