a system of farming in which planting is done in a narrow trench, without tillage, and weeds are controlled with herbicide
no-tillage in American English
(ˈnouˈtɪlɪdʒ)
noun
the planting of crops by direct seeding without plowing, using herbicides as necessary to control weeds
Also: no-till. Also called: minimum tillage, zero tillage
Word origin
[1965–70]
Examples of 'no-tillage' in a sentence
no-tillage
The treatments were crop succession under no-tillage, crop rotation under no-tillage and crop rotation under no-tillage plus chiseling.
Cássio Antonio Tormena, Marcelo Alessandro Araújo, Jonez Fidalski, Joaquim Marianoda Costa 2007, 'Variação temporal do intervalo hídrico ótimo de um latossolo vermelho distroférricosob sistemas de plantio direto Temporal variation of the least limiting water rangeof an oxisol under no-tillage systems', Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solohttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-06832007000200003. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Three adjacent areas under different management systems were selected: no-tillage-non-irrigated, no-tillage-irrigated and natural forest.
Vilson Antonio Klein, Paulo Leonel Libardi 2000, 'Faixa de umidade menos limitante ao crescimento vegetal e sua relação com a densidadedo solo ao longo do perfil de um latossolo roxo The least limiting water range asrelated to the soil bulk density along the soil profile of an oxisol', Ciência Ruralhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-84782000000600006. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
A comparison was made with no-tillage.
Tshiunza, M., Tollens, E. 1997, 'Effet de l'éloignement des champs sur la productivité du travail dans la culture dumanioc en Afrique sub-Saharienne', Tropiculturahttp://www.tropicultura.org/text/v15n3/123.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Both winter and summer crops were established under no-tillage.
Silvio Tulio Spera, Henrique Pereira dos Santos, Renato Serena Fontaneli, GilbertoOmar Tomm 2010, 'Efeito de integração entre lavoura e pecuária, sob plantio direto, em alguns atributosfísicos do solo após dez anos Effect of crop-livestock under no-tillage on some soilphysical attributes after ten years', Bragantiahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0006-87052010000300022. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The no-tillage system provided seeds with better physiological quality.
Rômulo Magno Oliveira de Freitas, Salvador Barros Torres, Narjara Walessa Nogueira,Caio César Pereira Leal, Raul Martins de Farias 2013, 'Cowpea seeds quality and yield according to cropping systems and hydric stress', Pesquisa Agropecuária Tropicalhttps://www.revistas.ufg.br/pat/article/view/22226. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The no-tillage treatment tended to reduce yields.
Yasuhiro Izumi, Erwin Yuliadi, Morio Iijima 2004, 'Maize-Soybean-Cowpea Sequential Cropping as a Sustainable Crop Production for Acid-InfertileClay Soils in Indonesia', Plant Production Sciencehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1626/pps.7.356. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Plants were cultivated under no-tillage and conventional tillage systems.
Mirta Teresinha Petry, Fernando Luís Zimmermann, Reimar Carlesso, Cleudson Jose Michelon,Jefferson Horn Kunz 2007, 'Disponibilidade de água do solo ao milho cultivado sob sistemas de semeadura diretae preparo convencional Water availability to maize plants cultivated under no-tillageand conventional tillage systems', Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solohttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-06832007000300013. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)