Technical and economic performance of animal-drawn implements for minimum tillage: Experience on Vertisols in Ethiopia
Land degradation is one of the major problems related to low productivity in Ethiopia. Vertisols are potential agricultural lands but are underutilized due to waterlogging during the rainy season and are prone to soil erosion due to the traditional practices of planting crops at the end of the rainy...
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Cambridge University Press
2002
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| author | Astatke, A. Jabbar, M.A. Mohamed Saleem, M.A. Erkossa, Teklu |
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| description | Land degradation is one of the major problems related to low productivity in Ethiopia. Vertisols are potential agricultural lands but are underutilized due to waterlogging during the rainy season and are prone to soil erosion due to the traditional practices of planting crops at the end of the rainy season exposing bare land to heavy rains. An animal-drawn implement, the broadbed maker (BBM), was tested to facilitate drainage of the Vertisols. Improved drainage enables earlier planting of crops to use the resultant prolonged growing period for attaining higher yields. In order to further improve the BBM package, the frame of the BBM was used for attachment of other implements to minimize tillage practices and reduce seed and fertilizer rates, labour and animal power requirements and soil erosion. The attachments were tested both on-station and on-farm with positive results. |
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| spelling | CGSpace329132024-11-15T08:52:05Z Technical and economic performance of animal-drawn implements for minimum tillage: Experience on Vertisols in Ethiopia Astatke, A. Jabbar, M.A. Mohamed Saleem, M.A. Erkossa, Teklu vertisols animal power tillage economic analysis food grains yields mixed farming Land degradation is one of the major problems related to low productivity in Ethiopia. Vertisols are potential agricultural lands but are underutilized due to waterlogging during the rainy season and are prone to soil erosion due to the traditional practices of planting crops at the end of the rainy season exposing bare land to heavy rains. An animal-drawn implement, the broadbed maker (BBM), was tested to facilitate drainage of the Vertisols. Improved drainage enables earlier planting of crops to use the resultant prolonged growing period for attaining higher yields. In order to further improve the BBM package, the frame of the BBM was used for attachment of other implements to minimize tillage practices and reduce seed and fertilizer rates, labour and animal power requirements and soil erosion. The attachments were tested both on-station and on-farm with positive results. 2002-04 2013-07-03T05:25:45Z 2013-07-03T05:25:45Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/32913 en Limited Access Cambridge University Press Experimental Agriculture;38(2): 185-196 |
| spellingShingle | vertisols animal power tillage economic analysis food grains yields mixed farming Astatke, A. Jabbar, M.A. Mohamed Saleem, M.A. Erkossa, Teklu Technical and economic performance of animal-drawn implements for minimum tillage: Experience on Vertisols in Ethiopia |
| title | Technical and economic performance of animal-drawn implements for minimum tillage: Experience on Vertisols in Ethiopia |
| title_full | Technical and economic performance of animal-drawn implements for minimum tillage: Experience on Vertisols in Ethiopia |
| title_fullStr | Technical and economic performance of animal-drawn implements for minimum tillage: Experience on Vertisols in Ethiopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Technical and economic performance of animal-drawn implements for minimum tillage: Experience on Vertisols in Ethiopia |
| title_short | Technical and economic performance of animal-drawn implements for minimum tillage: Experience on Vertisols in Ethiopia |
| title_sort | technical and economic performance of animal drawn implements for minimum tillage experience on vertisols in ethiopia |
| topic | vertisols animal power tillage economic analysis food grains yields mixed farming |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/32913 |
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