Dry Farming for Sustainable Agriculture
Contents: 1. Introduction-Dry Farming Defined 2. The Theoretical Basis of Dry-farming 3. Dry-farm Areas-Rainfall 4. Dry-farm Areas-General Climatic Features 5. Dry-farm Soils 6. The Root-system of Plants 7. Storing Water in the Soil 8. Regulating the Evaporation 9. Regulating the Transpiration 10. Plowing and Fallowing 11. Sowing and Harvesting 12. Crop for Dry-farming 13. The composition of Dry-farm Crops 14. Maintaining the Soil-fertility 15. Implements for Dry-farming 16. Irrigation and Dry-farming 17. The History of Dry-farming 18. The Present Status of Dry-farming 19. The Year of Drouth 20. Dry-farming in a Nutshell 21. Appendix
Nearly six tenths of the earth\'s land surface receive an annual rainfall of less than twenty inches, and can be reclaimed for agricultural purposes only by irrigation and dry farming.
Nearly six tenths of the earth\'s land surface receive an annual rainfall of less than twenty inches, and can be reclaimed for agricultural purposes only by irrigation and dry farming.
