Subsoiling
Type: Approaches
Creation: 2009-01-28 00:00 Updated: 2017-07-19 15:25
Compilers: Zhanguo Bai
Reviewers: Laura Ebneter
Country/ region/ locations where the Approach has been applied
- Country: China
- Region/ State/ Province: Henan
- Map: View Map
Description of the SLM Approach
Short description of the Approach
Subsoiling with mulching is one of the conservative tillage using subsoiling plough to loose subsoils with surface soil undisturbed.
Detailed description of the Approach
Sustainable agriculture in the dry and semidry region in the North China, especially o the slope farmland is searching always based on the ecological balance. Conservative tillage such as subsoiling, zero and reduced tillage are important to keep soil fertility. Mulching is also a way to improve the soil organic matter. So subsoiling with mulching is an approach to do this. Subsoiling using subsoiling plough is to loose subsoils let all rainfall in the soils and avoid runoff occur.
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