Adoption of No-till Agriculture: The Role of Information
No-till improves the physical and chemical characteristics of the soil, allows land to stay in production for an extended period of time, improves moisture conservation, and is labor saving. This paper uses three theories to discuss factors that influence farmers’ decision to adopt or not adopt no-till farming technology.
Adoption of No-till Agriculture: The Role of Information
This has led to the promotion of conservation agriculture and more specifically, no-till agriculture. No-till improves the physical and chemical characteristics of the soil, allows land to stay in production for an extended period of time, improves moisture conservation, and is labor saving.
Current Status of Adoption of No-Till Farming in the
Abstract and Figures. In 1999 no-tillage farming, synonymous of zero tillage farming or conservation agriculture, was adopted on about 45 million ha world wide, growing to 72 million ha in 2003
No-Till: How Farmers Are Saving the Soil by Parking Their
No-till farming is one system that has the potential to help realize this vision of a more sustainable agriculture. As with any new system, there are challenges and trade-offs with no-till....
No-Till: The Quiet Revolution - Agricultural Research Service
No-till farming is one system that has the potential to help realize this vision of a more sustainable agriculture. As with any new system, there are challenges and trade-offs with no-till. Neverthe - less, growers in some parts of the world are increasingly abandoning their plows. Plowing Ahead
- Why do farmers adopt no tillage practices in India?
- India: The adoption of no-tillage practices by farmers in India has occurred mainly in the rice–wheat double cropping production system and has been adopted primarily for the wheat crop. The main reason is that tillage takes too much time resulting in delayed seeding of the wheat crop after rice.
- What is no tillage farming?
- In 1999 no-tillage farming, synonymous of zero tillage farming or conservation agriculture, was adopted on about 45 million ha world wide, growing to 72 million ha in 2003 and to 111 million ha in 2009, corresponding to an growth rate of 6 million ha per annum.
- Why is no-till farming important?
- At the same time, no-till farming is enabling agriculture to respond to some of the global challenges associated with climate change, land and environmental degradation, and increasing cost of food, energy and production inputs.
- Is no-till farming sustainable?
- The wide recognition of no-till farming as a truly sustainable system should ensure the spread of the no-till technology and the associated practices of organic soil cover and crop rotation, as soon as the barriers to its adoption have been overcome, to areas where adoption is currently still low.
- Which country uses no tillage technology?
- New Zealand: This country is among the first in the world to use and develop the no-tillage technology. At the beginning, pasture renovation without tillage was tried and practiced successfully. Later also annual crops were seeded with the no-tillage system.
- Are conservation agriculture/no-tillage systems sustainable?
- With increasing awareness that sustainability of agricultural production is a must if sustainable development at national and global level is to be achieved, Conservation Agriculture/No-tillage systems will continue to grow world wide. But for sustained growth to take place the main barriers to no-till adoption need to be overcome.
