Conservation tillage gains 6 million acres.Conservation tillage systems - no-till, mulch-till and ridge-till - account for 109.8 million acres Acre, state, BrazilAcre (äk`rə, äk`rā), state (1990 est. pop. 1,125,100), 58,915 sq mi (152,590 sq km), W Brazil, on the borders of Peru and Bolivia. Rio Branco is the capital.Acre, city, IsraelAcre, Israel: see Akko. in the US, according to the Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC CTIC - Chicago Title Insurance CompanyCTIC - Combatant Technical Issues Conference CTIC - COMSEC/TRANSEC Integrated Circuit CTIC - Conservation Technology Information Center CTIC - Contractor Technical Information Coding). This is approximately 37 percent of the 294.6 million cropland acres planted in the US in 1997. Conventionally tilled cropland dropped 4 million acres to 107.6 million acres. Reduced tillage accounts for the remaining 77.3 million acres planted in 1997. As one of its major objectives, CTIC would like to see US conservation tillage used on 50 percent of the annually planted acres by 2002. |
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