Adoption of conservation agriculture in Kazakhstan
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World Congress on Conservation Agriculture; 4: Innovations for improving efficiency, equity and environment p. 243-248Summary: First conservation tillage methods were developed in North Kazakhstan back in 1960s. Farming systems were based on grain production in cereal fallow rotations with sweep soil tillage. Currently many components of this system are reviewed to increase the efficiency and sustainability of the soil. Long term experiments showed the opportunity to decrease the tillage and minimum tillage became generally adopted practice by the end of the 20th century. There is great potential shift to direct seeding at certain soil-climatic conditions. No-till is already adopted on over 10% of cropland area in north Kazakhstan. Raised bed planting has been showing positive results in irrigated agriculture in the south but it is not adopted by practice because of lack of equipment in the market. In regard to rotations the opportunities of crop diversification and replacement of tilled summer fallow with cereal and oil crops are studied. In production conditions, the decrease of summer fallow area takes place at a slow rate.
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First conservation tillage methods were developed in North Kazakhstan back in 1960s. Farming systems were based on grain production in cereal fallow rotations with sweep soil tillage. Currently many components of this system are reviewed to increase the efficiency and sustainability of the soil. Long term experiments showed the opportunity to decrease the tillage and minimum tillage became generally adopted practice by the end of the 20th century. There is great potential shift to direct seeding at certain soil-climatic conditions. No-till is already adopted on over 10% of cropland area in north Kazakhstan. Raised bed planting has been showing positive results in irrigated agriculture in the south but it is not adopted by practice because of lack of equipment in the market. In regard to rotations the opportunities of crop diversification and replacement of tilled summer fallow with cereal and oil crops are studied. In production conditions, the decrease of summer fallow area takes place at a slow rate.
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