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Abstract A study was conducted to determine the effect of tillage practices on soil properties under maize cultivation in savanna ecosystem of South eastern Nigeria. The tillage systems evaluated were zero, convectional and traditional tillage systems. The traditional tillage system resulted to the most favorable soil environment, for crop growth and best performance of crop followed by conventional and no-tillage system in the area are studied respectively. The significant difference ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study Tillage is the agricultural preparation of soil by mechanical agitation of various types, such as digging, stirring and overturning. Examples of human-powered tilling methods using hand tools include shovelling, picking, mattock work, hoeing, and raking. Examples of draft-animal-powered or mechanized work include ploughing (overturning with moldboards or chiseling with chisel shanks), rototilling, rolling with cultipackers or other rollers, harrowing, and cultivating with cultivator shanks (teeth). Small-scale gardening and farming, for household food production or small business production, tends to use the smaller-scale methods above, whereas medium- to large-scale farming tends to use the larger-scale methods. ...