A tillage machine used to loosen the top layer of soil and reduce moisture loss by plowing the stubble left in the field after the grain harvest in shallow and narrow strips. (Translated from https://anabilgi.anadolu.edu.tr/?contentId=232082)
A kind of subsoiler (a type of plough that loosens the subsoil) with a torpedo-shaped tip. So called because the tip describes a path much like the burrow that a mole creates. (Wiktionary, 2024. Mole plough. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mole_plough)
Raw material that functions as source of energy (e.g. petroleum, natural gas, coal), electricity, steam and forms of renewable energy. (https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/onze-diensten/methods/definitions/energy-source)
An apparatus in which environmental conditions (light, photoperiod, temperature, humidity, etc.) are fully controlled; used for hatching eggs, multiplying micro-organisms, culturing plants, etc. (FAO Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture, 2001)
The growing of crops in a systematic arrangement of strips or bands which serve as vegetative barriers to wind and water erosion. The strips or bands may run perpendicular to the slope of the land or to the direction of prevailing winds. (NALT. 2025. strip cropping https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/30189)
Techniques and equipment to protect plants or property from frost damage, which can occur in almost any location where the temperature dips below the melting point of water (0 °C). Frost protection techniques are often separated into indirect and direct methods or passive and active methods. (Adapted from FAO, 2005. Frost Protection: fundamentals, practice, and economics https://www.fao.org/4/y7223e/y7223e00.htm)
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Passive frost protection methods are those that act in preventive terms, normally for a long period of time and whose action becomes particularly beneficial when freezing conditions occur. Active Passive frost protection methods are temporary and they are energy or labour intensive, or both.
