Strip farming

The principle that guides efforts to reduce sedimentation and siltation as causes of water pollution is to reduce the flow of water over cultivated land or land that has otherwise been disturbed, such as during construction. A number of farming techniques, such as contour and strip farming and terracing, are well known to reduce soil erosion. To the extent that more farmers adopt such techniques, problems of sedimentation and siltation will be reduced. 

Root crop the area in West Africa where this farming system is mainly practiced is sandwiched between the "tree crop" and "forest based" systems in the South and the "cereal-root crop mixed" system in the North. A similar strip exists south of Central Africa. 

Other Chevron Furcoat Applications (Figure A-8). Chevron Fur-coat may be used to insulate and protect the permafrost under air field landing strips and taxi ways, in pads for compressor stations, for insulation under pipelines and tank farms, and for a number of uses under and... 

From a technical point of view it was infinitely easier to plough up large units of land without regard for individual claims than it was to identify each family allotment, measure its value in the peasants traditional terms, and then painfully transpose it from scattered strips into a consolidated farm. Then, too, a capital city administrator could not help but prefer to supervise and tax large productive units and not have to deal with separate farmers.. . . The collective had a dual appeal to authentic agrarian reformers. They represented a social ideal for rhetorical purposes, and at the same time they seemed to simplify the technical problems of land reform and state control. ... 

Semotan (1962), in his discussion of the reclamation of the spoils from brownstrip-mines of Czechoslovakia, emphasized the importance of using the right technology of strip mining, including the selection of soil materials that will, when placed on the top of the spoil, serve as satisfactory subsoil and topsoil ingredients. The next step is to get humus into these soil materials. Since the addition of crop residues is a very slow method of building up humus, he recommended the addition of farm manures, fertilizers, moor-... 

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