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- Title
Evolution of Smart Strategies and Machines Used for Conservative Management of Herbaceous and Horticultural Crops in the Mediterranean Basin: A Review.
- Authors
Failla, Sabina; Pirchio, Michel; Sportelli, Mino; Frasconi, Christian; Fontanelli, Marco; Raffaelli, Michele; Peruzzi, Andrea
- Abstract
Preserving soil quality and increasing soil water availability is an important challenge to ensure food production for a growing global population. As demonstrated by several studies, conservative crop management, combined with soil cover and crop diversification, can significantly reduce soil and water losses. The aim of this review is to evaluate the spread of smart solutions to perform conservation agriculture (CA) well in the Mediterranean Basin, taking into account the evolution of the strategies and the machines used to perform conservative tillage systems in different contexts in the last 30 years, as well as the effects induced by their adoption on the productivity of herbaceous and horticultural crops, weed control and economic feasibility, in comparison with those obtained utilizing conventional techniques based on soil inversion.
- Subjects
COMPUTERS; CROP management; HORTICULTURAL crops; CROP diversification; COVER crops; SOIL quality
- Publication
Agronomy, 2021, Vol 11, Issue 1, p106
- ISSN
2073-4395
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/agronomy11010106