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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...

contamination, thermal pollution and groundwater contamination. By contour planting and contour ploughing, the rate of water runoff and thus soil erosion can be substantially...

playing a role in climate change mitigation. Contour ploughing orients furrows following the contour lines of the farmed area. Furrows move left and...

erosion due to improper land and plough utilisation is possible. Contour ploughing mitigates soil erosion by ploughing across a slope, along elevation...

agriculture. Contour ploughing is an established practice enabling sustainable agriculture on sloping land; it is the practice of ploughing along lines...

flows and retain soil on their fields. Common techniques include: contour ploughing crop mulching crop rotation planting perennial crops installing riparian...

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...

cultivation in terraces that follow the natural contours of the escarpments, like contour ploughing, are a classic feature of the island of Bali and...

equipment and housing). contour ploughing (contour farming) – the farming practice of plowing across a slope following its contours. The rows formed have...

Cohesion (geology) - Compressed earth block - Consolidation (soil) - Contour ploughing - Critical state soil mechanics Darcy (unit) - Darcy's law - Darcy–Weisbach...

flattening land or breaking up large clumps of soil, especially after ploughing or disc harrowing. Typically, rollers are pulled by tractors or, prior...

four hundred million, where the vast majority live in the countryside, ploughing the land as landless peasants or sharecroppers, it is hardly surprising...

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...

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...

Martin Down (grid reference SU040191) has been removed by centuries of ploughing. The overall orientation of the Cursus is northeast–southwest; it does...

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...

splendor). Wherever the vowel is unreduced in pronunciation (e.g., devour, contour, flour, hour, paramour, tour, troubadour, and velour), the spelling is...

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...

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...

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...