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Minimum tillage simulated 17% less soil organic carbon loss than conventional tillage.
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e0“a significant reduction in SOC losses was simulated in MT and NT, 17% and 63% respectively, compared to CT.”
e1“historical crop-yield data”
Title
Introducing innovative precision farming techniques in agriculture to decrease carbon emissions.
Donato Cillis Padua@research (University of Padova) 2018
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- Method / resource Four homogeneous management zones were defined.
- Intervention effect Strip tillage reduced crop yield by 20% versus conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect No tillage reduced crop yield by 15% versus conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Precision agriculture increased total crop yield by over 10% in conservation tillage.
- Intervention effect Minimum tillage with precision agriculture had 2% higher net energy than conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Precision agriculture enhanced strip tillage net energy by almost 20% versus uniform application.
- Intervention effect Precision agriculture enhanced no tillage net energy by almost 20% versus uniform application.
- Intervention effect Precision agriculture with minimum tillage increased energy efficiency 10% over conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Precision agriculture with no tillage increased energy efficiency 2% over conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Precision agriculture with strip tillage increased energy efficiency 15% versus fixed input rates.
- Observation SALUS projected soil organic carbon stock loss across treatments.
- Intervention effect No tillage simulated 63% less soil organic carbon loss than conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Conservation tillage reduced farming operation carbon emissions.
- Intervention effect Precision agriculture optimized fossil fuel and fertilizer use.
- Intervention effect No tillage with precision agriculture reduced total CO2 by 56% versus conventional tillage.