Soil Cultivation

Processing of soil is the oldest culture in agriculture and still needed in modern agriculture. How the proper soil cultivation for conservation of soil resources? The purpose of land preparation is to prepare the nursery, where farming, create a good root zone, burying crop residues, and eradicate weeds. How tillage greatly affects soil structure that is formed naturally good because the penetration of roots or fauna tauna, if too intensive cultivation of land, the soil structure will be damaged.

Farmers who cultivate the habit of excessive land where the soil is processed to clean the surface is one example of the wrong treatment because these conditions lead to surface sealing of soil particles dispersed by grain rain, clogging the pores of the soil, forming surface crusting. To overcome the bad influence of lawyer-prepared soil, then the recommended number of ways that conservation tillage can reduce erosion. The way the question is:

Without soil (TOT), land to be planted are not processed and plant debris before it left scattered on the surface, which will protect the soil from erosion threat during this very vulnerable, namely when the initial growth of plants. Planting is done by Portugal.Eradicate weeds using herbicides

Minimal soil cultivation, not all cultivated land surface, only row crops are processed and partly plant residues left on soil surface

Processing according to the contour of the land, the cultivation of land is cut slopes, forming channels which pile of soil and flow according to the contour or cross slope.Processing according to the contours of the land would be more effective if followed by planting in contour, which also allows the absorption of water and avoid transporting soil.Some of the practices such as land preparation is already there since then and has been carried out by farmers in some areas.

Cultivate soil conservation have been made by ancient man in order to get results from farming to meet short-term living needs, and may not have occurred to them to conserve land resources.