tillage

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"Ultimately, we need a more diversified agricultural model, with fewer cattle, and more horticulture, organics and tillage," he told AFP.

From Barron's • Nov. 11, 2025

Intense tillage is known to be bad for worms.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 26, 2023

The money would provide farmers with technical and financial assistance to implement practices like planting cover crops or reducing soil tillage.

From Reuters • May 2, 2023

With crops grown in farm fields, more intensive management means a reduction in the diversity of crops grown, combined with increased application of nutrients and use of mechanical soil tillage on the farm.

From Salon • Dec. 26, 2022

They have no word for plough in their language, and they still follow the nomadic form of tillage known as jum cultivation.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various