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Sites Availability for Minimalizing and Soil-Conservation Tillage of Soils in Slovakia Cover

Sites Availability for Minimalizing and Soil-Conservation Tillage of Soils in Slovakia

By: Jozef Vilček and  Karol Kováč  
Open Access
|Jun 2011

Abstract

There is an alternative technology of traditional agricultural soil processing, so called minimalizing cultivation, which is based on reduction of some operating processes used in common. It is possible to perform this technology only in particular soil conditions. Total land area of sites, which are avail-able for the application of minimalizing cultivation is about 693 thousand hectares, which presents approximately 28% of agricultural and 48% of arable soils. 60% of this land area occurs in the maize production area and 39% in the sugar beet production area, thus in the most favourable agricultural local-ities regarding climate and soil. According to the administrative structuring of Slovakia 43% of agricultural soils suitable for minimalizing technologies occurs in Nitra district and about 27% in Trnava district. Identification of areas, suitable for such technologies application, is possible by the information databases of Soil Science and Conservation Research Institute, which have been elaborated for this purpose in geographic and informative systems. Regarding input parameters, they were chosen as follows: climatic conditions of given locality, steepness, depth, stoniness and soil texture.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10207-011-0008-x | Journal eISSN: 1338-4376 | Journal ISSN: 0551-3677
Language: English
Page range: 68 - 75
Published on: Jun 24, 2011
Published by: National Agricultural and Food Centre
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2011 Jozef Vilček, Karol Kováč, published by National Agricultural and Food Centre
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons License.

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