NO-TILL
AGRICULTURE
Impact of Tillage on Global Agriculture:
For centuries, farmers have used tools, from plows to tractors, to turn over,
or till, their soil to remove weeds before planting. While this has been a
common and effective method for generations, it can ultimately lead to soil
erosion and loss of essential soil nutrients. Advances in biotech crops and
crop protection products are allowing farmers worldwide a new approach
through conservation – or no-till – agriculture. By leaving the soil untilled,
farmers build up the nutrients in their fields and preserve topsoil, which
boosts yields and helps our environment.
Tillage Trends:
Tillage can remove topsoil, which contains essential nutrients and water that
crops need to thrive.
Traditional tillage practices use
more fuel than a no-till system
60
%
Technology Profile:
•By using herbicide-tolerant biotech crops,
farmers can use crop protection products,
instead of tillage, to remove weeds before
planting. This no-till approach reduces soil
erosion, preserves water and nutrients,
and boosts crop production.
•No-till farming has the potential to
increase irrigated maize crop yields
globally by 67% and wheat yields by
57% by 2050.6
•Combined with precision agriculture
and heat-tolerant varieties, no-till could
reduce maize and wheat prices by 10 to
20 percent by 2050.7
•No-till agriculture uses less fuel and
keeps carbon in the soil. In 2012
alone, the amount of CO2 saved by
biotech crops was equal to removing
every single car from the streets of
London for five years.8, 9
when producing a corn crop.1
With farmers using no-till on 274 million acres each year2,
•Globally, farmers are adopting no-till
practices at a dramatic rate, especially as
herbicide-tolerant biotech crops become
more available worldwide – from 45 million
no-till hectares in 2001 to more than 100
million hectares in 2008.10
stopping this tillage prevents at least 3.2 million
tons of CO2 emissions – enough to offset U.S.
home electricity use for nearly 3.5 years.3,4,5
Global Benefits:
By 2050, agriculture will need to produce enough food to feed 9 billion people while battling increasingly difficult growing environments due
to climate change. No-till agriculture will enable farmers to adapt to these new conditions and deliver yield benefits around the world:
Global
Production
Worldwide yield improvements on irrigated acreage with no-till agriculture11
Maize:
67% increase
Wheat:
57% increase
Latin America
and the Caribbean
95-109% increase
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa
106-115% increase
66-69% increase
84-92% increase
80-82% increase
References:
1. https://www.extension.org/pages/28317/reducing-tillage-to-save-fuel#.VBH-9i5dXfh
2. http://www.fao.org/ag/ca/CA-publications/China_IJABE.pdf
3. http://ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/jul97/gcd0797.htm
4. http://www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-resources/calculator.html#results
5. http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html
6. 2014 International Food Policy Research Institute: Food Security in a World of Natural Resource Scarcity: The Role of Agricultural Technologies. Mark W.
Rosegrant, Jawoo Koo, Nicola Cenacchi, Claudia Ringler, Richard Robertson, Myles Fisher, Cindy Cox, Karen Garrett, Nicostrato D. Perez, and Pascale
Sabbagh.
7. 2014 International Food Policy Research Institute: Food Security in a World of Natural Resource Scarcity: The Role of Agricultural Technologies
8. Barfoot P, Brookes G. Key global environmental impacts of genetically modified (GM) crop use 1996–2012. GM Crops and Food: Biotechnology in
Agriculture and the Food Chain.
9. http://www.tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms/documents/technical-note-12-how-many-cars-are-there-in-london.pdf Derpsch and Friedrich 2009
10.Derpsch and Friedrich 2009
11.International Food Policy Research Institute AgriTech Toolbox Crop Model: http://apps.harvestchoice.org/agritech-toolbox/
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