*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE*
*for sustainable agriculture and land management*
Dear Subscribers,
Prof. Gao Huanwen, is emeritus of China Agricultural University and was for
a long time the Director of the Conservation Tillage Research Centre (CTRC)
in Beijing. Today, he is celebrating his 80th birthday.
The global Conservation Agriculture community sends Prof. Gao warmest
congratulations and best wishes for a very Happy 80th Birthday. We wish him
good health, long life and much happiness. May he celebrate many more
birthdays.
Prof. Gao has since 1990 promoted the Development of Conservation
Agriculture in China and can be considered a pioneer champion of
Conservation Agriculture in China. He has also assisted FAO with
Conservation Agriculture development in other countries. He has ensured
that his work continues and is further extended. China has adopted
Conservation Agriculture as official national policy.
*Amir Kassam *
*Moderator*
*Global CA-CoP*
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
URL: www.fao.org/ag/ca
*Conservation Agriculture is an ecosystem approach to regenerative
sustainable agriculture and land management based on the practical
application of context-specific and locally adapted three interlinked
principles of: (i) Continuous no or minimum mechanical soil disturbance
(no-till seeding/planting and weeding, and minimum soil disturbance with
all other farm operations including harvesting); (ii) permanent
maintenance of soil mulch cover (crop biomass, stubble and cover crops);
and (iii) diversification of cropping system (economically, environmentally
and socially adapted rotations and/or sequences and/or associations
involving annuals and perennials, including legumes and cover crops), along
with other complementary good agricultural production and land management
practices. Conservation Agriculture systems are present in all continents,
involving rainfed and irrigated systems including annual cropland systems,
perennial systems, orchards and plantation systems, agroforestry systems,
crop-livestock systems, pasture and rangeland systems, organic production
systems and rice-based systems. Conservation Tillage, Reduced Tillage and
Minimum Tillage are not Conservation Agriculture, and nor is No-Till on its
own* (more at: www.fao.org/ag/ca).
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