Friday 2 October 2020

What is fallow land?

 land which is not used for farming purpose and is left unused is called a fellow land. One may convert a fellow land to a cultivable one by adding manures and fertilizers. Crop Rotation is another method by which one can regain the fertility of the soil and make it arable..


(of farmland) ploughed and harrowed but left for a period without being sown in order to restore its fertility or to avoid surplus production.

In agricultural technology: Fallow system and tillage techniques. Dryland farming is made possible mainly by the fallow system of farming, a practice dating from ancient times. Basically, the term fallow refers to land that is plowed and tilled but left unseeded during a growing season.

All arable land included in the crop rotation system, whether worked or not, but with no intention to produce a harvest for the duration of a crop year. Fallow land (temporary) is the cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons. .


fallow. Synonyms: quiescent, idle, uncultivated, unproductive, untilled. Antonyms: cultivated, worked, tilled, sown, productive, operative, prolific, fruitful.
'Fallow' periods were traditionally used by farmers to maintain the natural productivity of their land. The benefits of leaving land fallow for extended periods include rebalancing soil nutrients, re-establishing soil biota, breaking crop pest and disease cycles, and providing a haven for wildlife.
Something that is fallow is left unused. If you're smart but lazy, someone might say you have a fallow mind. ... Fallow comes from the old English word for plowing, and refers to the practice of leaving fields unplowed in rotation — when a field lies fallow, the soil regains nutrients that are sucked up by over-planting.

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