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Tillage involves the mechanical manipulation of soil to enhance crop production and affects various soil characteristics. It typically includes primary tillage for deep soil preparation and secondary tillage for seedbed formation, collectively known as conventional tillage. Tillage plays a crucial role in crop establishment, soil structure modification, and weed control in agricultural systems.

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Tillage involves the mechanical manipulation of soil to enhance crop production and affects various soil characteristics. It typically includes primary tillage for deep soil preparation and secondary tillage for seedbed formation, collectively known as conventional tillage. Tillage plays a crucial role in crop establishment, soil structure modification, and weed control in agricultural systems.

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Introduction:

Tillage is defined as the mechanical manipulation of the soil for the purpose of crop production affecting
significantly the soil characteristics such as soil water conservation, soil temperature, infiltration and
evapotranspiration processes.

Traditionally, most tillage operations consist of primary tillage followed by secondary tillage. This
traditional combination is referred to as ‘conventional tillage,’ although this term is also applied to any
tillage system that has been adopted for a period of time. Primary tillage usually consists of relatively
deep (15–25 cm) tillage, using a moldboard or chisel plow. In contrast, secondary tillage is relatively
shallow (10–15 cm) and used to pulverize and consolidate the soil to form a suitable seedbed.

In agricultural systems, tillage functions as a subsystem that influences crop production mainly through
crop establishment, modification of soil structure, incorporation of fertilizer and soil amendments
(e.g., lime and manure), and weed control.

Processing:

Function:

It improve usage of food. Removal of poisonous agents from the food. It enables us to get different
kinds of food from a farm produce. It make transporting of produce easy.

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