contour ploughing

(Agriculture) ploughing following the contours of the land, to minimize the effects of erosion

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contour ploughing

n → aratura a girapoggio

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The Roman farming estates called latifundia, together with the practice of plowing up and down slopes instead of across (contour plowing), ruined Italian soils.

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