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From: Amir Kassam <amirka...@googlemail.com>
Date: Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 1:34 PM
Subject: Fwd: Farmers are abandoning traditional ploughing - BBC News
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Gobal CA-CoP CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

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Dear Subscribers,

Please see herebelow the link to an article in the BBC News entitled Farmers are abandoning traditional ploughing by David Gregory-Kumar, Science, Environment & Rural Affairs Correspondent

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-38332276

The article was published on 16 December 2016.

The CA area in the UK in 2016 is estimated to be about 400,000 hectares of arable cropland, equivalent to some 10% of total arable land in the UK. In 2011, the CA area in the UK was estimated to be about 150,000 hectares. Thus, there has been an increase in the CA area by some 167% since 2011.

One major reason for this substantial increase has been the availability of good quality no-till drills and an increase in awareness by farmers of the real opportunity and  possibility of sustainable production intensification with the CA approach.

The increase in awareness is being brought about through organizations such as Groundswell (www.groundswellag.com) and Conservation Agriculture Association for the UK (CA-UK) (www.conservation-agriculture.co.uk), as well as through more and more CA farmers themselves championing the need to move away from the intensive tillage-based production systems which have become sub-optimal in their performance in terms of productivity, economics and environmental sustainability and services.

The CA area across Europe has also been increasing in recent years mainly due to the advocacy and field work of the European CA Federation (ECAF) and their National level farmer associations in 15 countries across Europe (www.ecaf.org). 

Amir Kassam

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