Reuse of green waste in fields
Green waste returns carbon and nutrients to the ground in a well-balanced way.
Reuse of wood chips in fields
Wood chips can be buried in the form of pruning scraps or woodchips to significantly increase the content of stable carbon in the ground.
Vermicompost
Vermicompost is the product of the decomposition process of organic matter using different types of worms including Eisenia fetida, Enchytraeus buchholzi, and other earthworms capable of transforming vegetable residues and food waste into soil improver.
Compost
Compost is an amendment that derives from the bio-oxidation and humification of a mixture of organic materials
Trees associated with grass crops
The association of tree crops with herbaceous crops, or intercropping, has always been rather common, especially in the past.
Biochar
Biochar is a vegetable carbon obtained from the pyrolysis of different types of vegetable biomass.
Cover crops
This technique entails adding herbaceous species to productive systems with the main goal of keeping the ground covered by vegetation.
No-till farming
Covering the ground with grass is a soil management technique with low environmental impact, used as a potential solution to work land where fruit trees grow.
Vertical tillage
This technique involves tilling the soil at a depth of 5-8 cm with machinery equipped with vertical discs not inclined with respect to the tillage direction, which do not lift or mix the soil.
Strip tillage
This technique involves tilling the soil in 15-20 cm wide ‘strips’ with a maximum depth of 15 cm.
