How to reduce soil erosion - requests of legislation and experiences with conservation tillage in the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://www.agrosym.rs.ba/agrosym/agrosym_2015/BOOK_OF_PROCEEDINGS_2015.pdf" target="_blank" >http://www.agrosym.rs.ba/agrosym/agrosym_2015/BOOK_OF_PROCEEDINGS_2015.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

How to reduce soil erosion - requests of legislation and experiences with conservation tillage in the Czech Republic

Original language description

In the Czech Republic there is more than 50% of agricultural land exposed to water erosion. It is a very urgent problem at present and mainly for the future. The goal of legislation is to protect soil against soil erosion especially on slope areas. The payment of direct support for farmers and other selected subsidies depends on fulfilment of the Statutory Management Requirements (SMR) and Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions (DZES), which are standards of the cross compliance system. The restrictions are concerned to cultivation of wide-row crops in seriously and slightly endangered areas by erosion. In seriously endangered areas, wide-row crops (maize, sugar beet, potatoes, sunflower, bean, soybean and sorghum) are not allowed to grow. In slightly endangered areas, growing of wide-row crops is allowed, but using conservation tillage, where limits for minimum crop residue coverage were defined. Conservation tillage systems with their modification are increasingly being introduced under the economic pressure on the fields of the Czech Republic. Reducing tillage operations improves soil surface properties, including improved soil aggregation accounting for increased infiltration and percolation; less compaction due to less usage and more biological activity due to an increase in organic matter. Adding soil surface cover increases water infiltration, reducing soil drying and maintains available water for crops. Apart from above mentioned approaches in soil tillage, new crop management practices are tested with potential effect against erosion. In maize, systems based on narrower spacing and higher stand density, are evaluated in different locations of the Czech Republic.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

GD - Fertilization, irrigation, soil treatment

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/QJ1210008" target="_blank" >QJ1210008: Innovation of cropping systems of cereals in different agoecological conditions in Czech Republic.</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Agrosym 2015: Sixth International Scientific Agricultural Symposium. Book of Proceedings

ISBN

978-99976-632-2-1

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

59-68

Publisher name

University of East Sarajevo

Place of publication

Sarajevo

Event location

Jahorina

Event date

Oct 15, 2015

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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