Strip tillage as an implementation of resource-saving approaches in areas of risky agriculture

Abstract

Zones of farming with arid climate require scientific justification and competent approach in the field of tillage. The main objectives in developing approaches to mechanical tillage in the field of soil-protective technologies are to reduce erosion processes, accumulate and retain moisture, create favorable conditions for the growth of cultivated plants in the root zone. Reducing the number of soil treatments during the growing season of plants contributes to the ecologization of the soil treatment process and the solution of economic problems. Soil-protective measures also include methods of wind speed reduction in the surface layer. In the article various approaches to the methods of mechanical soil tillage, recommended for use in the zones of risky agriculture on the example of the Volgograd region, are considered. Technical solutions, which allow solving the problems of a modern crop producer by improving the environmental friendliness of agriculture, increasing the crop yield, and increasing the profitability of production, are proposed.