{"id":370,"date":"2020-12-30T13:42:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T13:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gro-ezy.com\/index.php\/encyclopedia\/bush-fallow\/"},"modified":"2020-12-30T13:42:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T13:42:36","slug":"bush-fallow","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"https:\/\/gro-ezy.com\/index.php\/encyclopedia\/bush-fallow\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Fallow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A system of farming whereby the farmer <a href=\"https:\/\/gro-ezy.com\/index.php\/encyclopedia\/cultivate\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"to improve the land by plowing and fertilizing\" class=\"encyclopedia\">cultivate<\/a>s on a piece of <a href=\"https:\/\/gro-ezy.com\/index.php\/encyclopedia\/land\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Before the invention of two-way ploughs soil could only be turned one way. For convenience fields were divided into sections called lands which were ploughed by going round and around turning the soil to the middle. Lands were sited in different places each year.\" class=\"encyclopedia\">land<\/a> for some years and later leave it for some years with the aim of restoring the fertility of the soil naturally. During the <a href=\"https:\/\/gro-ezy.com\/index.php\/encyclopedia\/fallow\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"left without tilling or sowing after plowing\" class=\"encyclopedia\">fallow<\/a> period, the farmer <a href=\"https:\/\/gro-ezy.com\/index.php\/encyclopedia\/cultivate\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"to improve the land by plowing and fertilizing\" class=\"encyclopedia\">cultivate<\/a>s another piece of <a href=\"https:\/\/gro-ezy.com\/index.php\/encyclopedia\/land\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Before the invention of two-way ploughs soil could only be turned one way. For convenience fields were divided into sections called lands which were ploughed by going round and around turning the soil to the middle. Lands were sited in different places each year.\" class=\"encyclopedia\">land<\/a>.  It similar to <a href=\"https:\/\/gro-ezy.com\/index.php\/encyclopedia\/shifting-cultivation\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"It is the movement of a farmer from one piece of land to another after years of cultivation, as a result of soil degradation associated with soil mining. It is responsible for almost 70% of deforestation in Tropical Africa, and together with the relate bush-fallow slash-and-burn cultivation system, disturbs more land than is actually needed&hellip;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">shifting cultivation<\/a> but the period of <a href=\"https:\/\/gro-ezy.com\/index.php\/encyclopedia\/fallow\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"left without tilling or sowing after plowing\" class=\"encyclopedia\">fallow<\/a> is not more than five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A system of farming whereby the farmer cultivates on a piece of land for some years and later leave it for some years with the aim of restoring the fertility of the soil naturally. During the fallow period, the farmer cultivates another piece of land. 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