Need of Aeration in Agriculture Must Understanding

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When agriculture started some 13,000 years ago in East Asia it was a humble task meant to bring some food on the table. Today, it’s a multibillion dollars industry involving agricultural machinery for every task concerning the preparation of soil, tilling, sowing of seeds, aeration, watering, adding nutrients, removal of weeds and harvesting.

An aeration system is one of the most essential components in any agricultural setup. As a commercial grade agricultural developer, you would be concerned with implements for planting and fertilization besides pest control and irrigation. You would need cultivators and harrows besides the plough and of course the tractor in various configurations. Equipments would be required for deweeding as well as harvesting. You would also need various types of systems for the purpose of aeration. Basically, the object of the aeration system is to firstly prepare the soil and thereafter ensure that the right conditions are created for an equitable distribution of water, oxygen and the nutrients to reach the roots deep down.

In the case of agricultural land, aeration is achieved with the help of a large variety of aerators. Each of these machines is different because of either the task that it has to perform or due to the season when it has to perform this task of aeration. For instance, in the case of the turf, the concept of the season plays a very important role. Therefore, the purpose of aeration remains that of breaking down the clumps of soil, making the surface plane, cutting or digging furrows for the purpose of enhancing aeration and then digging deeper holes for the better growth of the roots. This ensures that the roots receive plenty of oxygen and water while the nutrients are judiciously distributed. However, solid tines could be used instead of pulling cores and deep tines used for shattering the soil especially in the spring. The lighter slitting type of aerator is used in spring and fall, while the needle tines are used in summer and deep/solid tines in the winter. Then, there are lawn aerators that could be the spike kind or the core aerator variety that has hollow tines along with cores or pull out plugs. There are water fillable aerators as well as the tractor aerators that come in different sizes. Today's large-scale agriculture is highly mechanized. With the help of the latest in technology, it is now possible to have the perfect kind of aerator to do the job.