PROMOTING CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE IN THE EASTERN FREE STATE OF SOUTH AFRICA

Agriculture contributes to greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) through practices that reduce the amount of soil organic carbon. Examples of this are fallow and intensive tillage. Conventional ways of farming are not sustainable as soils are degraded, imbalanced, over-utilized, low in organic matter and w...

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Main Author: Knot, Jakob
Other Authors: Prof PAL le Roux
Format: Others
Language:en-uk
Published: University of the Free State 2014
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Online Access:http://etd.uovs.ac.za//theses/available/etd-08042014-113530/restricted/