Sentence examples for contour farming from inspiring English sources
Established five nurseries and 15 contour farming sites using Sloping Agricultural Land Technology (SALT), and provided CBOs in these sites with seeds, planting materials and tools to initiate production.
Consider contour farming.
Contour farming can help absorb the impact of heavy rains, which in straight-line planting often wash away topsoil.
Contour farming has been practiced for centuries in parts of the world where irrigation farming is important.
Contour farming is most effective when used in conjunction with such practices as strip cropping, terracing, and water diversion.
Contour farming, the practice of tilling sloped land along lines of consistent elevation in order to conserve rainwater and to reduce soil losses from surface erosion.
Several points were also brought up about rehabilitating the landscape of the watershed: reforestation, contoured farming, and redesigning of plantations to better retain rainwater.
The first of these should always be farming on the contour.
Longstanding English upland farming systems comprise sheep and beef-rearing enterprises which make use of the varied contours and conditions found in these landscapes.
