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Title: From conventional to conservation agriculture: Experiences on the development of no-tillage for small farms at Parana State, Brazil

Date Published: 2001
Author/s: Maria de Fatima Ribeiro
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Affiliation: National Agricultural Research Laboratories - NARL, FEBRAPDP and The World Bank
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Abstract:

No-tillage has increasingly been recognized as an important compor ent of conservation agri:ulture. The experience in Brazil has shown many advantages of this 3:,steni and various technologies - particularly for farmers with limited financia: reso_trces - are already available. The experience of adopting and adapting no-tillage system by a considerable percentage of sma_l farmers in Southern Brazil has attracted interest from developing รง eople all over the word.