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Why do farmers use quicklime?
they use it to neutralise acidic soil in fields
How mixed farming maintains soil fertility?
Mixed farming often means that a farm has crops a long with raising livestock. In that case, soil fertility is maintained because a) the manure from the livestock being raised is spread on the fields every year, or b) some crop-residue grazing practices have been implemented for the animals to deposit manure on the fields, resulting in having to not use the manure spreader to do the job instead.
Why do farmers sometimes use calcium oxide in the fields?
It increases the pH of soil and provides calcium for plants.
How can farmers grow crops where the soil is so dry?
They have to irrigate their fields
What method allowed soil to recover from cash crop production but was impossible for poor poor farmers?
Leaving fields unplanted allowed soil to recover from cash crops production, but it was impossible for poor farmers who needed the money from the sale of their crops.
Which manures the farmers prefer to use chemical fertilizer or farm manure?
both
Why do farmers use quicklime?
they use it to neutralise acidic soil in fields
How do farmers make fertilizers?
Ground manure
What is the purpose of a manure spreader?
A manure spreader does exactly what its name implies it does, it spreads manure. It is most useful in larger fields, where spreading manure by hand is not feasible.
What did ancient farmers use to bring water to their fields?
They used levee canals to bring water to their fields.
What technology did the Egyptians farmers use to get water from the Nile to their fields?
irrigation
What is the best way to use manure for fertilizer?
Horse manure needs to be composted for about one year before it is safe to place around plants. You compost manure in mush the same way you would anything else. Once it reaches the consistency of dirt then it's safe to use. Most people seem to have their own 'recipes' for composts.
Why do farmers need manure?
farmers use a mixture of manures and fertilizers so that the nutrients which cannot be fulfilled by the manures can be fulfilled by the plants and the nutrients which are not in the fertilizers can be fulfilled by the manures ex-NPK [nitrogen, phosphate and potassium] fulfill the nutrients which are not present in the manures
What technology did Egyptian farmers use to get water water from the Nile to their fields?
irrigation
What did farmers use back then when they didn't have tractors?
Before tractors farmers used horses, mules, and oxen to till the fields.
How do you compost horse manure?
We scoop it into a manure spreader and spread it across the fields before the hay comes in or between cuttings.
What practice do some farmers use to create narrow level fields?
Terrace farming
