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Land Preparation
Land Preparation
Factors determining the number of times secondary cultivations should be done include:
What are the reasons for carrying out primary and secondary cultivation?
Kill weeds
Allow enough time for carbon dioxide and other gases to diffuse out of the soil while being
replaced by oxygen which is important for germination and growth of soil organism.
Break the soil into appropriate tilth for the required seed bed
TERTIARY OPERATIONS
Minimum Tillage
This is the application that combines all farming practices aimed at least disturbance of the soil.
Application of herbicides
Use of mulch on the soil surface
Restricting cultivation to the area where seed are to be planted
Establishing cover crop on the field
Uprooting or slashing weeds in perennial crops.
To prevent exposure of humus to adverse conditions such as the suns heat that cause
volatilisation of nitrogen
To conserve moisture
Tertiary operations
These are operations carried out to suit the preparation of given seedbed used when producing certain
crops.Examples of such operations include:-
Ridging
Rolling
Levelling