intertillage

[ in-ter-til-ij ]

noun

, Agriculture.

1. tillage between rows of crop plants.

Word History and Origins

Origin of intertillage¹

First recorded in 1910–15; inter- + tillage

Example Sentences

It should be noted that all of these crops were broad-cast seeded, none required row planting or intertillage.

From Project Gutenberg

The selection of the quick-maturing, drought-resisting millets as the great staple food crops to be grown wherever water is not available for irrigation, and the almost universal planting in hills or drills, permitting intertillage, thus adopting centuries ago the utilization of earth mulches in conserving soil moisture, has enabled these people to secure maximum returns in seasons of drought and where the rainfall is small.

From Project Gutenberg

By planting in hills and rows with intertillage it is very common to see three crops growing upon the same field at one time, but in different stages of maturity, one nearly ready to harvest one just coming up, and the other at the stage when it is drawing most heavily upon the soil.

From Project Gutenberg

In this system of combined intertillage and multiple cropping the oriental farmer thus takes advantage of whatever good may result from rotation or succession of crops, whether these be physical, vito-chemical or biological.

From Project Gutenberg