Release Date: 2024-06-17

Environmental and Economic Impacts of Tillage Practices in the Context of Climate Change

Songul Gursoy (Author), Songul Akin (Author)

Release Date: 2024-06-17

Climate changes, such as the effects of soil tillage practices on climate change, have a significant impact on the selection of soil tillage practices. Weather and climate significantly influence the performance of tillage tool and machinery, also the efficiency of the applied soil tillage method. For example, climate properties such as in temperature, precipitation, and [...]

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    First Page109
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    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.69860/nobel.9786053359432.6
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    Climate changes, such as the effects of soil tillage practices on climate change, have a significant impact on the selection of soil tillage practices. Weather and climate significantly influence the performance of tillage tool and machinery, also the efficiency of the applied soil tillage method. For example, climate properties such as in temperature, precipitation, and frost timing are considered when applied soil tillage systems because they significantly affect soil properties such as moisture, strength, temperature. Similarly, tillage practices have significant effect on climate change due to their profound influence on the physical properties of soil and the greenhouse gas balance. This chapter informs about how climate properties affects soil tillage practices as well as environmental and economic impacts of soil tillage practices. It consists of three section. The first section presents the main tillage systems, their applications, their advantages and limitations. The second section discusses the effects of tillage practices on soil, environment, crop, energy and economy such as soil properties, crop productivity, and global greenhouse gas, fuel consumption and carbon emissions which are pivotal factors in climate change. Third section reviews the effects of soil properties such as moisture, temperature and strength changed due to climate change (temperature, precipitation, and moisture regime changes etc.) on the efficiency of soil tillage practices.

    Songul Gursoy (Author)
    Harran University
    https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6145-0684
    3Dicle University Department of Agric. Machinery and Techn. Engineering. The author has many publications available on planting plants for your soil cultivation sensitive agriculture

    Songul Akin (Author)
    Harran University
    https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3543-7806
    3Songül Akın’s bachelor’s degree is in economics and public administration. Master’s study is related to agricultural organizations. He completed his doctorate in rural sociology. Dr. Songül Akın currently works as an Associate Professor at Dicle University Faculty of Agriculture. She has been area of ​​expertise is agricultural extension and agricultural policies. She has been carrying out academic studies in the field of agricultural extension and agricultural policy for more than twenty-four years.

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