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Amir Kassam <[log in to unmask]>
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Amir Kassam <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 7 Apr 2015 12:03:50 +0100
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*CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE*

*for sustainable production intensification*

Dear Subscribers,

Please find herebelow a paper on CA research work done by Colin Piggin and
his team at ICARDA.

*Amir Kassam *

*Moderator*

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From: Piggin, Colin (ICARDA) <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Publication of ACIAR Iraq B4 paper in FCR (2015) 173 57-67
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Dear Amir

I hope all is well with you. For your information, please find attached a
paper from the ACIAR Iraq project just published in FCR. It presents
comparative data for 6 years on the performance of the most important crops
(wheat, barley, chickpea, lentil) in the Middle East and West Asia under
old conventional and new conservation cropping systems. The reality of the
extremely variable climate and crop performance in this Mediterranean
region is well illustrated, with the important message clear that farmers
are almost always better off using zero tillage and early sowing. The trial
has helped give the technology credibility and, along with other
project-led research, extension, training and ZT seeder fabrication, has
encouraged quite widespread adoption and better productivity, profitability
and sustainability of cropping across Syria and northern Iraq.

Interestingly, we hear from farmer contacts in Syria and Iraq that ZT
continues to expand because elimination of plowing is very attractive with
the high cost and limited availability of diesel and a desire to minimise
dangerous road travel from villages to farms. A few of our collaborating ZT
seeder manufacturers are still functioning and farmers can still buy, rent
or borrow a seeder.

With best wishes

Colin

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