Tillage erosion and controlling factors in traditional farming systems in Pinar del Río, Cuba

Wildemeersch, Jasmien; Vermang, Jan; Cornelis, Wim; Díaz, Jorge; Gabriëls, Donald; Ruiz, Marie-Elena

doi:10.1016/j.catena.2014.05.027

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“…The travel distances were shorter compared to those from traditional animal-drawn steel or metal ploughs and ards performed on steeper slopes (Dercon et al, 2007;Barneveld et al, 2009, Table 1). The translocation observed in this study was similar to Wildemeersch et al (2014), who used an ox-drawn mouldboard steel pin plough along-contour and (consequently after a month) perpendicular to the primary slope direction on slopes of 4% and 16.5%. Similar to our results, they observed long-distance tracer translocations, which were caused by transport on oxen hooves, but contrary to this study, they omitted translocation >0.5 m in the tillage direction in calculations of mean displacement.…”

Section: Tillage Erosion Caused By Wooden Ard During the Setting-up Osupporting

confidence: 85%

“…During contour tillage, they did not observe net displacement in primary slope direction, whereas we found translocation (0.06 ± 0.2 m) lower than travel distances as observed by Nyssen et al (2000) and Dercon et al (2007) on steep slopes. Results presented here indicate no significant relationships between slope and tillage translocation, which is similar to Wildemeersch et al (2014), but contrary to other studies of traditional ards and ploughs (Thapa et al, 1999;Nyssen et al, 2000;Dercon et al, 2007;Barneveld et al, 2009). Transport distances differed in both directions, similar to the results of Dercon et al (2007) andHeckart.…”

Section: Tillage Erosion Caused By Wooden Ard During the Setting-up Ocontrasting

confidence: 62%

“…Additionally, dense roots increased resistance to ard penetration, and thus, reduced dissection of soil clods and their translocation. Wildemeersch et al (2014) also found that hypogeal roots dragged a substantial amount of soil when pulled out by a mouldboard. Turkelboom et al (1997) suggested that weed pressure in fields may affect tillage translocation.…”

Section: Tillage Erosion Caused By Wooden Ard During the Setting-up Omentioning

confidence: 91%

“…This preparation may have eased effects of cross tillage, which separated larger soil clods below the root zone. Post tillage management could include (i) repeated cross tillage until soil clods were destroyed, (ii) destruction of soil clods by hoeing (e.g., Turkelboom et al 1999;Zhang et al, 2004;Kimaro et al, 2005;Dupin et al, 2009), (iii) ploughing and harrowing (Wildemeersch et al, 2014) to prepare the seedbed for sowing. Complementary, seeding under clods (similar to recent conservation practices) may be preferred.…”

Section: Ard Tillage In Seedbed Preparation In a New Field Setup In Gmentioning

confidence: 99%

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An interdisciplinary tillage erosion experiment: establishing a field in grassland with reconstructed ard plough of the Bronze Age-Iron Age

Pavelka

Smetanová²,

Rejman

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ABSTRACT. Despite recognising the role of tillage erosion in landforms evolution, little research has documented its effects in prehistoric times. Herein, an interdisciplinary archaeological-geomorphological experiment with reconstructed tillage tools and management was conducted in order to measure tillage erosion when a new field in grasslands was established in the BronzeAge-Iron Age. Three wooden ards were reconstructed based on archaeological findings. They were tested in a cross-tillage experiment, consisting of a tillage pass perpendicular to the primary slope (6.5-9.7%)

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Section: Tillage Erosion Caused By Wooden Ard During the Setting-up Osupporting

confidence: 85%

Section: Tillage Erosion Caused By Wooden Ard During the Setting-up Ocontrasting

confidence: 62%

Section: Tillage Erosion Caused By Wooden Ard During the Setting-up Omentioning

confidence: 91%

Section: Ard Tillage In Seedbed Preparation In a New Field Setup In Gmentioning

confidence: 99%

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An interdisciplinary tillage erosion experiment: establishing a field in grassland with reconstructed ard plough of the Bronze Age-Iron Age

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Rejman

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Quantifying soil displacement and tillage erosion rate by different tillage systems in dryland northwestern Iran

Kouselou

Hashemi

Eskandari

et al. 2018

Soil Use and Management

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Redistribution of soil particles by the force applied by tillage is a major factor in soil degradation of agricultural land. Decreasing tillage intensity can reduce the amount of soil displaced and the distance moved and hence may reduce rates of erosion. To understand the relative importance of erosion, we tabulated machine, soil and landform properties likely to be involved. We compared soil displacement and tillage erosion rates under different systems, including mouldboard ploughing (conventional tillage), chisel ploughing (reduced tillage), stubble cultivator (minimum tillage) and no-tillage under dryland agriculture in northwestern Iran. The area was undulating and so all tillage took place along contours. Metallic tracers were buried in the soil at known locations and depths and their recovery after tillage provided a measure of soil displacement and tillage erosion. Conventional tillage along a contour line caused significantly greater soil displacement (≃57 cm) in the direction of tillage than reduced and minimum tillage systems (~20 and~15 cm, respectively). Conventional tillage also caused more lateral soil displacement (downwards in the main direction of slope, the tillage erosion rate) than reduced or minimum tillage systems (48 cm or 152 kg/m vs. 5 and 4 cm or 16 and 7 kg/m, respectively). Although a range of factors contribute to the tillage systems used by farmers, our results suggest that under dryland conditions, similar to those found in our study area, adoption of noninversion, reduced tillage along the contour, for example by chisel ploughing can substantially limit tillage erosion relative to conventional tillage.

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Wirkungen der Bodenerosion auf Bodeneigenschaften und Ertrag

Duttmann¹,

Kuhwald²

2018

Handbuch Der Bodenkunde

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Tillage erosion and controlling factors in traditional farming systems in Pinar del Río, Cuba

Cited by 11 publications

References 20 publications

An interdisciplinary tillage erosion experiment: establishing a field in grassland with reconstructed ard plough of the Bronze Age-Iron Age

An interdisciplinary tillage erosion experiment: establishing a field in grassland with reconstructed ard plough of the Bronze Age-Iron Age

Quantifying soil displacement and tillage erosion rate by different tillage systems in dryland northwestern Iran

Wirkungen der Bodenerosion auf Bodeneigenschaften und Ertrag

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