CA-CoP CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

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No-till farming is on the rise. That’s actually a big deal.

By Brad PlumerPublished: November 9 2013.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/11/09/no-till-farming-is-on-the-rise-thats-actually-a-big-deal/


For some reason, the writer of the above article has used 2004 CA data from FAO but obtained from the Scientific American which shows that CA area was about 96 million hectares worldwide. 


However, the CA data for 2011 available from the smae FAO source shows that the worldwide spread of CA in 2011 was 125 milltion hectares, some 9% of global arable cropped land (see attached article by Friedrich, T., Derpsch, R and Kassam, A.H. 2012).  


Amir Kassam

Moderator

 

Plant Production and Protection Division

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 
00153 Rome 
Italy

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URL: www.fao.org/ag/ca




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