tillage types and objectives

1. Tillage

2. TILLAGE
Fatherof tillage: Jethrotull suggested that
thorough ploughing is necessary so as
to make the soil into fine particles.
The word tillage is derived from
‘Anglo-Saxon’words Tilian and Teolian,
meaning ‘
to plough and prepare
soil for seed to sow, to cultivate and
to raise crops’.

3. Tillage
The mechanical manipulations of the soil
that are used to provide necessary soil
conditions favourable for the growth of
crops

4. Objectives of Tillage
To prepare seed bed
To control weeds

5. Incorporation of crop residue into soil
To improve soil physical condition

6. To establish specific surface configurations
for sowing, irrigation, drainage
To incorporate and mix the fertilizers

7. To expose weeds and soil borne
pathogens to heat and killing them