The introduction of intensive plow agriculture would improve the standard of living, promote population growth and result in densely-settled communities.
For digging, they use a long-handled wooden plow (kebinde) with a paddle-like end that is reinforced with an iron cutting edge.
A light plow or hoe was used to till the most common crops of grain, grapes, and olives.
For example, herbicide-resistant plants may also allow reductions in plowing (as opposed to conventional chemical applications) and thus reduce wind and water sediment damages.
Their evolutionist pronouncements became less coherent and confident, abandoning for example the idea that the plow would lead inevitably to the transformation of domestic organization.
Effects of plowing depth and deep incorporation of lime and phosphorus upon physical and chemical properties of two coastal plain soils after 15 years.
Microbial biomass and mineralizable nitrogen distributions in no-tillage and plowed soils.
Mechanization would make green-manuring on a large scale possible because tractor-drawn plows had the capacity to turn over and bury the green manure crop.