The significance of the fallow year in the dry-farming system of the Great Konya Basin, Turkey.

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  • B.H. Janssen

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https://doi.org/10.18174/njas.v20i4.17273

Abstract

About 20% of the area is irrigated and about 35% dry farmed using a fallow period of stubble to prevent wind erosion and hold snow in place in winter. In about 30 trials on farmers' fields during 1966-68, the contribution of moisture stored during the fallow year to the transpiration of a following wheat crop was 45 and 65%, indicating the indispensability of the fallow period. A tentative scheme for the area recommends the following: with an annual precipitation of <200mm, no wheat crop possible; with 200-260mm precipitation, 2 years of fallow to 1 year of wheat; with 260-350mm, 1 year of fallow to 1 year of wheat; with 350-450mm as in the preceding, also small N dressings; with >450mm precipitation, permanent cultivation, with N dressings replacing the fallow year.[281:132.2]. (Abstract retrieved from CAB Abstracts by CABI’s permission)

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1972-11-01

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