METHOD OF MINIMAL TILLAGE Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC A01B79/02 

FIELD: agriculture.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to the field of agriculture. The method includes post-harvesting tillage, harrowing, cultivation and sowing. Post-harvesting tillage is implemented with disk headers at a rate not less than 16 km/h at an angle of 30-40° to the direction of the forecrop harvesting. Harrowing is carried out with spring harrows at the rate of the device movement not less than 14 km/h at an angle of 30-40° to the direction of processing with the disk headers. Cultivation is carried out with a cultivator equipped with hoes-sweep cultivators and needlelike rotors at a rate not less than 10 km/h at an angle of 30-40° to the direction of harrowing. Sowing is carried out with a seeding-machine of unstriped sowing at an angle of 30-40° to the direction of the cultivator movement, and the post-harvesting treatment, harrowing, cultivation and sowing is carried out at a depth no greater than 8.0 cm.

EFFECT: method enables to improve soil fertility, increase crop yields without the use of mineral fertilisers, herbicides and chemical pesticides, to reduce costs to planting and harvesting, as well as improve the quality of grain.

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