Why are more farmers embracing the less and no till technique in farming?

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anonymous · Answer

due to the erosion highs .. so the wont till the ground as much so it wont wash away

barahona · Answer

Everyone has their reason. My own web of agriculture: http://euromiera.com/ Seeds of Transition (Inglés): https://vimeo.com/61191747 Seeds of Tansition (Spanish): https://vimeo.com/59138479 I can say that I do well in my agriculture: - It's a demanding physical and mental exercise keeps fit every muscle in my body, mind and spirit. - Agriculture teaches you discipline of life. The Sol brand your working hours. The weathered part my life. - I am aware that my effort by care for the planet. This fishbowl where we all live. Contribute to reducing consumption of petroleum products and toxic products into the atmosphere. I feed with healthy products in healthy soil without disease. - Each new piece of land reeled with my hoe takes a part of me. - Earth mixed with straw 20% and mature horse manure 5% is the best. - Irrigation systems and drip condensation. By location. - I put a fluffy bed of straw on the ground, so that neither the sun nor the wind dry land, prevent ice damage the roots of plants and prevent other plants are born. It retains much moisture and irrigation much less water. - I plant seeds from farmers using their own seeds from more than seventy years or more years ago. So I avoid planting genetically modified seeds. - I belong to the International Network of Ecological Seed Exchange. We do not sell or buy seeds. We exchange. Who begins with agriculture, seeds and send calls some varieties to start to cultivate. Who already has seed varieties and other requests are sent exchange for others. This is free forever. It is seed exchange. If someone tries to collect money, it is expelled forever from the clearing of seeds. - Here you can see on my website, links seed banks in Spain, India and France. Everyone who share our seeds, apart from agriculture to eat, have a seed bank. A Seed Bank varieties to share with other farmers from all over the planet. There are thousands of seed banks for exchange, scattered around the planet. Web in English: http://www.navdanya.org/ My web links Spanish bank Seeds: http://sosteniblealimentacion.com/ - Crop seeds of all kinds of edible plants. - The fruits of my agriculture are ugly. Irregular. But with excellent flavor. - To prevent pests, I use the resources that nature offers: Homes predatory insects toxic plants for pests (thyme, parsley, nettle, lavender, rosemary, etc). - A land you can not check any chemical fertilizer, hormones or pesticides. It is not necessary. - The agriculture look like makes you feel great. In symbiosis with nature. - The taste of feed on the generous land and your effort is unmatched. - All organic waste, get into a wooden crate to feed earthworms. - Spend a lot of time in agriculture. Sometimes he is working on it. Sometimes just breathing in the scent of the flowers and plants. Sometimes, lying or sitting, enjoying complete tranquility. - When The Harvest of a plant, pick up his last fruits to save their seeds and let the plant die. - Pick up the dead plants and introduce in a wooden box where mixed with excrement mixed with straw my chickens. - The following year, I mix the soil, also with all plants, straw and droppings wooden crate. This manure is very good. It has many beneficial nutrients for agriculture and earthworm. - Pick up my human excrement and let ripen in the sun for six months. Then I mix with water, straw and deposit with fruit trees. - I Pick up my piss and let it ripen in the sun for six months. Then I mix it with water, mature chicken manure, straw and feed aromatic plants. - I teach people of all ages my agriculture and protect the planet. - So year after year. - And in the meantime, I spend my time studying, innovating and talking. - Manual and organic farming brings me happiness. - This type of agriculture was first called permaculture in 1978 by scientists, Bill Mollison and David Holmgren. Introduction to Permaculture Bill Mollison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGzdZNu3is0 - Another famous farmer Masanobu Fukuoka, also a scientist, innovated a very effective system of permaculture, which often teach and use to repopulate burned mountains and deserts. Natural farming Masanobu Fukuoka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft0ylk4sU5M