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Contour farming (otherwise known as contour cropping and tillage) is the practice of cultivating and planting crops at right angles to the natural slope of the land to slow the movement of water and reduce soil loss. Tilling up and down long steep slopes increases the risk of erosion by tillage and water.
The purpose of contour farming is to reduce runoff and soil erosion on mild slopes. This practice can also increase crop yield through the soil moisture retention in arid and semiarid regions. Results showed contour cultivation reduced the annual.
Kontur farming adalah cara penanaman tanaman searah garis kontur untuk menghambat kecepatan aliran air permukaan, memperbesar peresapan air ke tanah, dan menghemat biaya. Kontur farming diterapkan di lahan miring untuk mengurangi erosi tanah dan aliran permukaan.
Natural vegetative buffer strips resulted in gradually increasing yields, with an estimated benefit of 0.5t/ha/crop. They were seen to increase land values, facilitate investment in more intensive and profitable cropping systems, and expand the land base for food crop agriculture.
Contour farming or also called contour cultivation, is also one of the conservation ways of agriculture. Farmers will plant the crops across a slope by following its elevation contour lines.
CONTOUR FARMING. CODE 330 (AC) I. DEFINITION. Aligning ridges, furrows, and roughness formed by tillage, planting and other operations to reduce velocity and direction of water flow to around the hillslope. II. PURPOSES. This practice may be applied to achieve one or more of the following:
Contour farming helps to solve the two problems of water loss and soil loss. This method can include building large terraces for crops and trees or rice paddies, or simply digging swales – or trenches along a contour line – along a hill to ensure that
