TY  - BK
AU  - Wijewardene,R.
AU  - Waidyanatha,P.
TI  - Systems, techniques and tools:  Conservation farming for small farmers in the humid tropics
PY  - 1984///
CY  - Colombo, Sri-Lanka)
PB  - Department of Agriculture, Commonwealth Consultative Group on Agriculture for the Asia Pacific Region, GTZ, CFTC, 
KW  - Agroforestry
KW  - Disease control
KW  - Feed crops
KW  - Fuel crops
KW  - Humid tropics
KW  - Pest control
KW  - Shifting cultivation
KW  - Small farms
KW  - AGROVOC
KW  - Soil conservation
KW  - Traditional farming
KW  - Zero tillage
KW  - Soil fertility
KW  - Farming systems
N1  - Illustrations, tables, graphs, references p. 39
N2  - The techniques of conservation farming have evolved primarily for the majority of farmers in the tropics who farm poorer soils at subsistence levels. They cannot afford the inputs, nor are the fragile ecosystems upon which they exist conducive to the 'high-input' technologies of the Green Revolution. Through conserving the natural resources of the soil, its surface and subsoil fertility, the water it receives from rainfall, and the natural recycling of forest vegetation, conservation farming aims to provide an essentially low-inputbut productive and self sustaining system of farming: farming for food and market as well as fodder for
ER  -