Review article

DEVELOPMENTAL TRENDS IN MINIMUM SOIL TILLAGE, APPLICATION OF CHISEL PLOUGH AND PARAPLOUGH, AND CONSERVATION SOIL TILLAGE AND SOME OF PECULIARITIES

Anđelko Butorac ; Grge Novaka 5, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Jasminka Butorac ; Agronomski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Ivica Kisić ; Agronomski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska

Abstract

The paper deals with the development trends in minimum soil tillage, application of chisel plough and paraplough in soil tillage, role of specially constructed drills in the conservation tillage system, energy consumption, straw involving procedures and weed control. Briefly, minimum soil tillage has become strongly established in the practice, depending on the ecology of different regions, which also determines the form of minimum tillage applied. Soil tillage with chisel plough has been accepted to a limited extent, which also holds for the paraplough. As spread of conservation tillage depends on technical innovations, newly constructed drills will have a significant role in this respect. Energy consumption is also reduced by conservation tillage, though this issue has been insufficiently studied to date. Introduction of straw is being considered from various aspects, though the problem is reduced to two effects. Straw may have the role of mulch or it can interfere with conservation tillage. In weed control, attention should be paid to weed ecology and biology, as well as to mechanisms of weed survival, that is, interactions between crops, weeds, herbicides and tillage, taking into account the fact that weeds are destroyed by conservation tillage itself.

Keywords

minimum soil tillage; chisel plough and paraplough; special sowing machines; conservation soil tillage; consumption of energy; straw procedure; weed control

Hrčak ID:

26546

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/26546

Publication date:

25.7.2006.

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