Influence of Soil Tillage Methods on the Protective Role of Vegetation Cover

Abstract

This chapter presents opportunities to use vegetative plants or their residues on the soil surface as a primary main indicator that restrains the development of erosion processes. Technological measures of soil cultivation that create different levels of erosion control efficiency presented, directly affecting the presence of post-harvest residues on the surface and indirectly the conditions of growth and development of crops in the conditions of unstable and insufficient moistening of Left Bank Forest Steppe, which is especially pronounced in the spring period. The methods and types of soil cultivation to strengthen this indicator by preserving the post-harvest residues of the previous crop for a certain period of time are considered. The compensating ways for an inevitable weakening of plant development and a decrease in their yield against the background of minimal tillage are presented to solve a problem of the same values of erosion resistance in agrocenosis with different tillage options during the growing season of crops in the rotation.