Opportunities and prospects of minimum soil tillage in Eastern Siberia

Abstract

The article considers a multifaceted and universal impact on the soil machine tillage. This agrotechnical method is the most costly and environmentally dangerous with its formulaic and irrational use. Throughout the world, the annual mouldboard tillage led to a number of negative phenomena resulted in the development of erosion, dehumification and a drop in soil fertility. So the doctrine about the minimization of methods and tillage systems appeared. It has been established that both the mold board and the subsurface tillage have both positive and negative aspects. Minimalization of tillage is also not panacea, it has both promising opportunities and limitations. In this regard, at the present stage, the most appropriate combination and alternation mold board and subsurface, deep and shallow techniques up to the sowing in field crop rotations directly. It is most promising to improve the tillage based on the application of multi-operation tillage machines and mechanisms that combine tillage, sowing, fertilizing, levelling and rolling in a single pass across the field.