Amaranth to Zai Holes, Ideas for Growing Food under Difficult Conditions (ECHO, 1996, 397 p.): 28 additional technical notes about tropical agriculture: Dry farming: (introduction...)

Amaranth to Zai Holes, Ideas for Growing Food under Difficult Conditions (ECHO, 1996, 397 p.)

28 additional technical notes about tropical agriculture

Dry farming

		*(introduction...)*
		Fundamental principles
		Requirements
		I. Increase water absorption
		II. Reducing the loss of soil moisture
		III. Dry farming practices

Echo technical note a-8

DEFINITION:Dry Farming is the profitable production of crops, without irrigation, of land with a low average or highly variable rainfall.