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Framework of climate-change and soil type oriented soil tillage in agricultural regions in Croatia

For a long time in the past research of soil tillage was one-side, exclusive soil biomass production (crop yield) – oriented, and generally not holistic but specialized, which means collecting more and more knowledge about less and less. Environmental problems, especially climate change and soil degradation as doubtless interconnected emergences are driving forces for re-orientation to respect the other, non-productive soil functions ; soil as reactor, transformer and integrator of material and energy from other resources, storage, filter and buffer system, gen reservoir and medium of past and present human activities. Premise of soil tillage as component of (crop) land management will be to understand and improve efficiency of internal recycling and storage of water, carbon and plant nutrients. Creating of framework for soil-type- and climate change-oriented soil tillage, we take in account the forthcoming accession of Croatia to EU, acceptance of CAP as European model of agriculture which is at the same time market oriented, environment friendly, multifunctional and respond to all the demands which society places upon it. There are the three main policy instruments for establishment and practical realization of proposed system on farm level ; mandatory measures, (EU directives and national legislation), incentive-based measures, awareness raising and possible private initiatives. Extremely important role in implementation all changes would have Croatian Agricultural Advisory Service (CAAS) in partnership relation with research institutions and Croatian Agricultural Chamber (CAC). It is necessary to clear define of set of minimum standards for to keep the land in Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition (GAES) as precondition for an efficient use of cross compliance for incentives in agriculture.

soil-type-oriented tillage; enhancement SOC management policy

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