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International Year of the Potato 2008. Potato and soil conservation Potato cultivation usually involves with a green manure cover crop. The Mulch planting and the no- intensive soil tillage throughout the Potato is later planted into the beds till Potato can help reduce cropping period, which often leads to which, by then, are covered by the dead the soil degradation, soil degradation, erosion and leaching mulch of the manure crop. erosion and nitrate of nitrates. During soil preparation, the entire topsoil is loosened and - For mechanical planting, planters are pollution often associated particularly on sticky soils - pulverized equipped with special discs that cut with Potato production through the mulch and split the Potato into small aggregates to avoid the formation of clods in the Potato beds. beds. The mulch protects the soil from Mechanical weeding and mechanized erosion during the first weeks of the harvesting also involve intensive soil crop. As the Potato plants grow, the Key Points reshaping of the beds incorporates the movement.

International ear of the Potato 2008 Potato cultivation usually involves intensive soil tillage throughout the cropping period, which often leads to

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