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- Contour bunding or contour farming or contour ploughing is the farming practice of plowing and/or planting across a slope following its elevation contour...12 KB (1,430 words) - 15:26, 6 June 2024
- contamination, thermal pollution and groundwater contamination. By contour planting and contour ploughing, the rate of water runoff and thus soil erosion can be substantially...36 KB (4,358 words) - 05:29, 8 June 2024
- Soil conservation (section Contour ploughing)playing a role in climate change mitigation. Contour ploughing orients furrows following the contour lines of the farmed area. Furrows move left and...18 KB (2,102 words) - 03:01, 9 August 2024
- erosion due to improper land and plough utilisation is possible. Contour ploughing mitigates soil erosion by ploughing across a slope, along elevation...68 KB (8,998 words) - 10:25, 29 August 2024
- agriculture. Contour ploughing is an established practice enabling sustainable agriculture on sloping land; it is the practice of ploughing along lines...14 KB (1,592 words) - 03:56, 24 February 2023
- flows and retain soil on their fields. Common techniques include: contour ploughing crop mulching crop rotation planting perennial crops installing riparian...19 KB (1,983 words) - 21:59, 12 January 2024
- example, farmers in many areas use terracing to retain soil and water. Contour ploughing also helps stabilize the fragile soil. Often human activity has degraded...36 KB (4,145 words) - 18:08, 12 July 2024
- cultivation in terraces that follow the natural contours of the escarpments, like contour ploughing, are a classic feature of the island of Bali and...60 KB (6,081 words) - 01:15, 3 June 2024
- equipment and housing). contour ploughing (contour farming) – the farming practice of plowing across a slope following its contours. The rows formed have...125 KB (17,368 words) - 08:58, 27 August 2024
- Cohesion (geology) - Compressed earth block - Consolidation (soil) - Contour ploughing - Critical state soil mechanics Darcy (unit) - Darcy's law - Darcy–Weisbach...8 KB (730 words) - 13:04, 28 August 2024
- flattening land or breaking up large clumps of soil, especially after ploughing or disc harrowing. Typically, rollers are pulled by tractors or, prior...7 KB (843 words) - 21:16, 13 February 2024
- four hundred million, where the vast majority live in the countryside, ploughing the land as landless peasants or sharecroppers, it is hardly surprising...303 KB (26,881 words) - 00:52, 30 August 2024
- substantial gaps, caused by ploughing and by development. It currently survives as four sections. The monument runs across the contours and runs along the division...3 KB (318 words) - 10:48, 10 May 2022
- any given time of year. contour farming The practice of ploughing and/or planting a sloping field by following its natural contour lines, such that the resulting...249 KB (30,667 words) - 15:45, 14 August 2024
- Martin Down (grid reference SU040191) has been removed by centuries of ploughing. The overall orientation of the Cursus is northeast–southwest; it does...10 KB (993 words) - 15:55, 24 August 2024
- settlement of the family or followers of a man called Ipa. There is an Iron Age contour fort on the hill at Hammer Wood north of the village. This rectangular...5 KB (542 words) - 20:13, 4 July 2024
- splendor). Wherever the vowel is unreduced in pronunciation (e.g., devour, contour, flour, hour, paramour, tour, troubadour, and velour), the spelling is...150 KB (12,656 words) - 17:16, 28 August 2024
- gravity relative to the hill and allows the combine to harvest along the contour of a hill without tipping, a danger on steeper slopes; it is not uncommon...37 KB (4,621 words) - 18:36, 24 August 2024
- Continuous track (section Heathcote's Steam Plough)built at Bach's Birmingham works, and was used between 1856 and 1858 for ploughing in Thetford; and the first generation of Burrell/Boydell engines was built...51 KB (6,102 words) - 06:17, 16 August 2024
- eliminate stretching. body plan In shipbuilding, an end elevation showing the contour of the sides of a ship at certain points of her length. boiler A power...306 KB (38,502 words) - 16:49, 8 August 2024
- wherever this is not the case the drains must be laid off to suit the contour of the ground, irrespective of the furrows altogether. When parts of a
- quickly abandon it. Each object delineates itself by an apparent or real contour, but the landscapes of M. Daubigny offer little except spots of color placed
- to plough furrows along he contours of the land. There were only a few reversible mouldboards and these were not always successful… so ploughing ‘up’