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Understanding the benefits of soil mulching

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Year of publication 2020

Place of publication Yangon, Myanmar ;

Pages 3p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Category Brochure

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Synopsis (short abstract) According to results of his demonstration tomato plot between mulching and without mulching, U Ye Tin concluded that applying the mulching practices on tomato field could conserve the soil moisture, still alive and is fruitful while the tomato plants that of control plot (without applying mulching practices) are suffering the water deficit and gradually died off when there is no rain at all about a month. It was found that the soil mulching which is one of the Climate Smart Agriculture practices is not only conserved the soil moisture and but also suppressed the growth of weed which is consequently beneficial to the crop performance of tomato plants.

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