Abstract:
A procedure in presented to use data from soil survey reports in
defining tillage systems adequate for a given land, as well as details of
specific tillage techniques. Selection of conventional tillage, conservation
tillage, contour tillage, as well as tillage systems specific for soils with
surface waterlogging, soils with subsoil compaction, sandy soils and saline
soils is based on data as topsoil texture, slope gradient, subsoil bulk density,
surface waterlogging and salinity. Workability and trafficability classes are
defined according to number of days with inadequate moisture content
during the cropping season and during the whole year. They are estimated
using climate water deficit and soil water excess. Classes of draft resistance
to ploughing of cropping land soils, specific for optimum soil moisture
content and for the end of the cropping season, are estimated from soil
genetic type and topsoil texture. Use by farmers of these estimated a soil
characteristic is discussed: selection of tillage system, need for specific
tillage implements, kind and number per hectares of tractors and tillage
equipment needed, and a.o.