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PRONUNCIATION OF LEY FARMING

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LEY FARMING

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Ley farming is a noun.
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WHAT DOES LEY FARMING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ley farming

Ley farming is an agricultural system where the field is alternately seeded for grain and left fallow. Another name for the method is "alternate husbandry". In ley farming, the field is alternately used for grain or other cash crops for a number of years and "laid down to ley" i.e. left fallow, used for growing hay or used for pasture for another number of years. After that period it is again ploughed and used for cash/field crops. During the fallow/pasture period the soil is filled with roots of grasses and other plants. New ploughing mixes them with the soil and also increases the amount of nitrogen in the ground especially when leguminous forages are used, as these have the ability of fixing atmospheric nitrogen into the soil via the help of bacteria living symbiotically in their root nodules, removing need of artificial nitrogen fertilizers. It also disturbs the life cycle of pests. It also protects soil against degradation by maintaining constant soil coverage.

Definition of ley farming in the English dictionary

The definition of ley farming in the dictionary is the alternation at intervals of several years of crop growing and grassland pasture.

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Synonyms and antonyms of ley farming in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «ley farming» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LEY FARMING

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The translations of ley farming from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ley farming» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

莱伊养殖
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

agraria en pastos
570 millions of speakers

English

ley farming
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Ley खेती
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

الزراعة LEY
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

лей хозяйство
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

agricultura ley
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

লেই চাষ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ley agriculture
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pertanian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kunstfutterbau
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

レイ農業
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

지맥 농업
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ley farming
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

nuôi ley
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

லீ பண்ணை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शेती पालन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ley çiftçiliği
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

agricoltura ley
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ley rolnictwo
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

лей господарство
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ley agricultura
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

αγρανάπαυση
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

ley boerdery
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

ley jordbruk
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

ley oppdrett
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ley farming

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LEY FARMING»

The term «ley farming» is barely ever used and occupies the 198.063 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LEY FARMING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ley farming

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LEY FARMING»

Discover the use of ley farming in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ley farming and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Role of Legumes in the Farming Systems of the ...
Lessons from this experience are related to agriculture in Mediterranean areas where ley farming could be relevant. The need for careful modification of the system and expert extension is stressed, in view of its complexity and the many ...
A. E. Osman, M. H. Ibrahim, M. A. Jones, 1990
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Farming, Development and Space: A World Agricultural Geography
The two most important European rotation categories are ley farming and annual- crop farming. The value chosen for separating the two is 25% CL in fodder cropping. Rotation systems that include this proportion or more in fodder cropping ...
Bernd Andreae, 1981
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New Scientist
For this ley-farming is proposed. This is a system of farming where crops and grass leys alternate in rotation round the farm and although there are rh&ny arguments on technical grounds irt favour of ley-farming this report considers the  ...
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Alfalfa and Relatives: Evolution and Classification of Medicago
Ley farming systems differ from permanent pastures in that there is a rotation between a crop (or several crops) that are grown as monocultures for a period, followed by a much less intensive management of the land during which the ...
Ernest Small, 2011
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Sustainable Dryland Farming: Combining Farmer Innovation and ...
FAO (1980). Rainfed agriculture in the Near East and North Africa. Proceedings of regional seminar held in May 1979 in Amman, Rome. ICARDA (1993). Introducing ley farming to the Mediterranean basin, eds. Cocks, P., Materon, L., Falcinelli ...
Lynne Chatterton, Brian Chatterton, 2005
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Wood Preservation
4.30.1.C.3 Ley Farming The introduction of ley farming, including the use of annual legumes and varietal improvements, has helped double cereal and animal production in southern Australia since the 1930s. Several million acres of cereal ...
Patrick J. Marer, Mark Grimes, University of California Integrated Pest Management Program, 1992
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Genetic Resources of Mediterranean Pasture and Forage Legumes
The second argues that ley farming as practised in Australia is simply not suitable for the Mediterranean basin. It was developed in and for Australia where climate and soils may differ, farmers are comparatively highly educated, and resources ...
Sarita Bennett, P.S. Cocks, 1999
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Technologies for Rainfed Agriculture in Mediterranean ...
Recent surveys suggest that the expansion of barley cultivation for sheep production seems a more attractive option to farmers than ley farming in the low- rainfall rainfall ecozones of WANA. Barley is more tolerant of drought and salinity than ...
Peter Oram, C. de Haan, 1995
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Potentials of Forage Legumes in Farming Systems of ...
Ley farming originated in the Mediterranean region of southern Australia using two widely distributed plant groups: subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum) and annual medics (including M. truncatula) . It was developed at a time when ...
I. Haque, S. Jutzi, Paul J. H. Neate, 1986
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Nordic-Baltic Co-operation on Sustainable Rural Development: ...
Perennial ley farming The aim of perennial ley farming is to reduce nutrient leaching and erosion of arable land. Furthermore, ley farming encourages biodiversity in the farmed landscape. In all, it is estimated that around 1,000,000 hectares of ...
‎2000

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LEY FARMING»

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Ley gardening in your back yard
Writing in a preface to his 1941 book “Ley Farming,” Stapledon called on farmers to adopt a system that would get the most food from the soil ... «Washington Post, Sep 13»
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Organic agriculture: deeply rooted in science and ecology
Ley Farming: The fertility of land plowed up for row crops after 3 to 4 years in grass/clover pasture is close to that of virgin soil because of the ... «Grist Magazine, Apr 11»
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The Future Is Organic: But It's More Than Organic!
Is there enough land to support grassland ley farming in ON? Because over half of all arable land in Ontario grows grain for livestock, a return ... «CounterCurrents.org, Mar 11»
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CFE: Encouraging brown hares
“The loss of rotational ley farming – mixed farms – has meant habitat diversity has been lost.” Hares like that diversity as it gives them crops to ... «FarmersWeekly, Oct 10»
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Fall seeded peas and lentils show promise as economical nitrogen …
Chen has black medic, a traditional nitrogen source in Australian ley farming, in the research, as well as birdsfoot trefoil, a perennial forage ... «Montana State University, May 08»

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