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Farmer plowing
A farmer with a traditional horse-pulled plough.

Tillage is the process in which soil is loosened and softened by tillers or harrows pulled by a tractor or by a plough pulled by an animal or human. The plough breaks the upper crust of the soil so that air and sunlight enter into the soil. This makes the soil more fertile but too much or frequent tillage may make it less fertile.

Images for kids

  • Fendt Tractor Ripping up Kulin

    Cultivating after an early rain

  • Ploughtilling the field

    Plough tilling the field

  • Arròs, sequer (26462086444)

    Rice tillage. Valencian Museum of Ethnology.

  • 2DU Kenya115 (5366706027)

    A Kenyan farmer holding tilled soil

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Labranza (agricultura) para niños

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