APES Farming Techniques

Terrace Farming

Best for the sides of farming; an agricultural technique that involves carving flat areas into hillsides or mountainsides to create level land for growing crops

Crop Rotation

Decreases fertilizer and sediment runoff; the practice of planting different crops sequentially on the same plot of land to improve soil health, optimize nutrients in the soil, and combat pest and weed pressure.

Conservation Tillage

Farmers do not turn the soil between seasons, leaving the residues from previous crops in the soil; A farming practice that reduces soil erosion and water loss by minimizing tillage and leaving crop residue on the soil surface.

Contour plowing

Plowing and harvesting are parallel to the topographic contours of the land

Ally Cropping

Intercropping trees with vegetables/crops

intercropping

Planting two or more crop species in the same field

Conventional Tillage

Removing all vegetation from land to plant crops; A farming practice that involves the regular plowing and turning of the soil to prepare it for planting, often leading to soil erosion.