Tillage
Tillage is a piece of farm equipment used for the preparation of the soil by mechanical agitation of various types, such as digging, mixing, and overturning.
Examples of human-powered tilling techniques using hand tools include shoveling, gathering, mattock work, hoeing, and raking. The meaning of “Tillage” is the land that can be tilled.
The word “cultivation” has several senses that overlap substantially with those of “tillage”. moreover cultivation and tillage both refer to agriculture. In terms of agriculture, both can refer to any of the kinds of soil agitation described above. Additionally, “cultivation” or “cultivating” may refer to an even narrower sense of shallow, selective secondary tillage of row crop fields that kills weeds while sparing the crop plants.
Tillage is a mechanical manipulation of soil to create favorable condition for the growth and development of crops. It includes plowing, harrowing, and other various intercultural operations.
Tillage is the physical manipulation of soil with tools and implements to result in good tilth for better germination and subsequent growth in crops. Tilth is a physical condition of the soil resulting from tillage.
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