Global CA-CoP CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

for sustainable agriculture and land management


Dear Subscribers,

Please see herebelo a self explanatory message from Dr. Asadi from Iran regarding the CA-based permanent raised bed system in Fars Province, southern Iran.

Thank you Dr. Asadi for sharing.

Amir Kassam

Moderator

Global CA-CoP

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URL: http://www.fao.org/conservation-agriculture


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/or 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: http://www.fao.org/conservation-agriculture
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From: M. E Asadi <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 at 01:39
Subject: Very informative clip regarding permanent raised bed system in Iran
To: [log in to unmask]

Dear Colleagues,

Warm greetings. Please enclosed find a short video clip from wheat permanent raised bed system from a farmer that one of our colleagues Mr. Dastfall  have coordinated in Fars Province south part of Iran. This clip was taken on April 5 2020. Wheat has been sown after cotton harvesting on November 2019 without soil or bed disturbance and no any plant in furrows only 4 rows of plants on beds.  

Still we are monitoring field and farmers says this is the best for them in terms of reduction of fuel and preparation of land due to low pass. Finally I want to conclude that in my view no need to go far for hi-tech technology however just enough to pay more attention to our very good farmers and to do something for them to empower them and showing them how science outputs can give them many benefits. 

Best wishes 

Asadi

M. E. Asadi, Ph.D
Independent consultant, Gorgan, Iran.
Water Engineering and Management, Conservation Agriculture System
Cell phone: +98 911 175 2719




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