Conservation tillage vs. conventional tillage: long-term effects on yields in continental, sub-humid Central Europe, Hungary

Madarász, Balázs; Juhos, Katalin; Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger, Zsófia; Benke, Szabolcs; Jakab, Gergely; Szalai, Zoltán

doi:10.1080/14735903.2016.1150022

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“…For instance, when a unit increased in male headed households, the adoption of minimum tillage increased by 13.65%. Men usually have more access to necessary factors of production compared to women as a result of sociocultural norms [25]. This study is in agreement with [26,27], which concluded that male-headed households were more likely to adopt agricultural practices compared to their female counterparts.…”

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Does Minimum Tillage Improve Smallholder Farmers’ Welfare? Evidence from Southern Tanzania

Osewe

Mwungu

Liu

2020

Land

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Conservation agriculture continues to be promoted in developing nations as a sustainable and suitable agricultural practice to enhance smallholder productivity. A look at the literature indicates that this practice is successful in non-African countries. Thus, this research sought to test whether minimum tillage (MT), a subset of conservation agriculture, could lead to a significant impact on smallholder households’ welfare in Southern Tanzania. Using cross-sectional data from 608 randomly selected smallholder households, we applied propensity score matching to determine the effects of adopting minimum tillage on smallholder households’ per capita net crop income and labor demand. Our results indicated that minimum tillage adoption has positive impacts on smallholder households’ per capita net crop income. Further, it reduces the total household labor demands, allowing households to engage in other income-generating activities. However, the adoption rate of minimum tillage is in the early majority stage (21.38%). Thus, we propose the government to support household credit access and extension-specific information to improve the probability of adopting minimum tillage.

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Does Minimum Tillage Improve Smallholder Farmers’ Welfare? Evidence from Southern Tanzania

Osewe

Mwungu

Liu

2020

Land

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“…However, VESS-based methods did not show significant differences in soil structural quality between the improved management systems (rNTF, rCTFM and rNTFM). While it was expected that NT improved structural quality, the improvement in soil structural quality under minimum or no tillage systems is time dependent (Araya et al, 2016;Madarász et al, 2016;Micheni et al, 2016;Sithole et al, 2016;Thierfelder et al, 2015). Our researcher managed trials were run for two years which could be the reason for lack of significant differences in Sq scores between treatments.…”

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Visual soil examination and evaluation in the sub-humid and semi-arid regions of Kenya

Mutuku

Vanlauwe

Roobroeck

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Soil and Tillage Research

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“…For that reason, more and more frequently, similarly as in many parts of the world, different RT methods are applied. They are more environment-friendly and, after a few years of regular performance, the crop yields can be even higher than for CT [57]. ST loosens the soil less than CT and many reduced ploughless tillage methods.…”

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Strip-Till One-Pass Technology in Central and Eastern Europe: A MZURI Pro-Til Hybrid Machine Case Study

Jaskulska

Jaskulski

2020

Agronomy

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The non-inversion tillage systems, including strip-till (ST), are the key element of conservation agriculture (CA). The aim of the 2012–2018 study has been to demonstrate the application of strip-till one-pass technology (ST-OP) on the farms of Central and Eastern Europe based on the use of Mzuri Pro-Til machines. There has also been an evaluation of the effect of that technology on the soil properties and the effects of crops growing. The scientific observations and field experiments were made, e.g., in Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Eastern states of Germany, Belarus, Serbia, and Romania. ST-OP case study with the use of Mzuri Pro-Til machine can be applied for growing all the basic crops. Tillage with a simultaneous basic fertilization application and seeding made regularly for a few years in given field leads to favorable changes in the soil properties. As compared with the soil under conventional plough tillage (CT), the soil moisture, especially in the periods of rainfall deficit, the content of organic carbon and its fraction, the count of microorganisms and earthworms, as well as the enzymatic activity, are higher. This technology saves over 20–30 L ha−1 of fuel, respectively, compared to reduced tillage (RT) and CT. Plant emergence is uniform, dense canopies and crop yields—not lower and even higher than for tillage and seeding commonly applied in Central and Eastern Europe. ST-OP can be thus an important element of field plant production as part of CA and sustainable development.

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Conservation tillage vs. conventional tillage: long-term effects on yields in continental, sub-humid Central Europe, Hungary

Abstract: 14The present study reports novel data concerning Conservation Tillage (CT) in the continental sub-humid climate 15 zone in Central Europe (Hungary), an area which has been mostly neglected in the course of previous CT

Cited by 20 publications

References 31 publications

Does Minimum Tillage Improve Smallholder Farmers’ Welfare? Evidence from Southern Tanzania

Does Minimum Tillage Improve Smallholder Farmers’ Welfare? Evidence from Southern Tanzania

Visual soil examination and evaluation in the sub-humid and semi-arid regions of Kenya

Strip-Till One-Pass Technology in Central and Eastern Europe: A MZURI Pro-Til Hybrid Machine Case Study

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