What is conservation farming?

It is a way of farming that help farmers achieve profits with sustained production levels while conserving the environment.

Principles

• Minimum soil disturbance
• Permanent soil cover
• Mixing and rotating crops

Conservation farming techniques

• Shelter belts/green belts
• Hedge rows
• Minimum tillage
• Relay cropping
• Mixed cropping
• Multiple cropping
• Strip cropping
• Cover cropping
• Mulching
• Green manure
• Compost manure
• Use of nitrogen fixing plants