High Wide Ridge Soil Management is a conservation practice associated with the no-tillage, reduced tillage, and conventional tillage systems, usual in small farms in southern Brazil. Integrated with winter grain or ground cover crops such as wheat (Triticum aestivum), rye (Secale cereale), black oats (Avena strigosa) and white oats (Avena sativa), millet (Pennisetum glaucum L.), Sudan grass (Sorghum sudanense), sorghum (Sorghum spp.), mucuna (Mucuna spp.), and brachiaria (Brachiaria spp.), high wide ridge is being used for tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum), soybean (Glycine max L.), maize (Zea mays), and beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) during the spring and summer seasons. The benefits expected from this technology, related to the performance of the tobacco crop,... |