An overview of Conservation Agriculture in the dry Mediterranean environments with a special focus on Syria and Lebanon

An overview of Conservation Agriculture in the dry Mediterranean environments with a special focus on Syria and Lebanon

Conservation Agriculture (CA), comprising minimum or no mechanical soil disturbance through no-till seeding, organic soil mulch cover, and crop diversification is now practiced on some 157 million ha worldwide, corresponding to about 11% of the global cropped land. CA adoption in the Middle-East is...

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Main Authors: B. Hansmann, I. Bashour, R. Bachour, K. Jouni, C. Estephan, A. AL-Ouda, A. Kassam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIMS Press 2016-02-01
Series:AIMS Agriculture and Food
Subjects:
no-till seeding
conventional agriculture
precipitation use efficiency
crop productivity
inputs costs
rainfed conditions
Middle-East
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