Farmers seek exemption from shallow cultivation requirement

The shallow cultivation or the sowing of a crop must be undertaken within 10 days of the chopping or baling of straw post-harvest. 

Tillage farmers are seeking an exemption to be granted from the shallow stubble cultivation requirement. 

Under nitrates rules, the shallow cultivation measure was introduced to establish green cover post-harvest to absorb nitrogen post-harvest that would otherwise be lost from the soil to the environment.