International Scientific Journals
of Scientific Technical Union of Mechanical Engineering "Industry 4.0"

Cover crops (green manure) brings not only immediate advantages like slowing erosion, suppressing weed growth, improving soil structure, increasing nutrients and water content and hindering some pests but also long term ones like decreasing erоsion, air pollution, investment in mineral fertilizers and herbicides and increasing microbiological activity. The paper gives examples of good practices both for whole and row-crop grains. It also suggest a useful crop rotation for a period of five years.

The paper discusses the gradual transition from conventional tillage through reduced tillage to no-tillage while creating favourable conditions for increase of organic matter. The paper suggests crop and tillage method rotation for a period of five years in order to facilitate this transition. It also reviews tests of soil physical properties which can help farmers determine how their soils are changing and what effect the change of tillage method has on them.

Considered are the problematic issues of tillage on slopes and presented the methodological aspects of theoretical analysis and experimental research. The production testing of the work of tillage equipment in the circumstances is being taken into account for the conservation of soil fertility. It is considered that the ploughs are often used on sloping lands for primary tillage, although the use of special tools for subsurface of the soil conservation tillage is preferable. Given here are the scientific-theoretical and practical recommendations on the use of the complex contour tillage machines and drainage system in the agriculture fields with complex terrain.