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Diversified cropping system: Strip cropping, Grenada

Year of publication 2008

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 3p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Soil conservation is crucial to sustainable agriculture. This technology involves growing row crops, forages, small grains or fallow in a systematic arrangement of equal width strips across a field. This arrangement of strips reduces water and wind-induced soil erosion and reduces the transport of sediment and other water-borne contaminants so the water quality can be maintained; and thus increases soil moisture.

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