.:: Lao Knowledge Base on Conservation Agriculture ::.
In 2005, 95 million ha were cropped under direct seeding systems worldwide. DMCs are mainly implemented on a very large scale in Brazil (almost 24 million ha in 2005). Through the initiatives of CIRAD (L. Séguy), they have also been adapted (or adaptation is under way) to small-scale family farming conditions in developing countries (Madagascar, Mali, Laos, Cambodia, etc.). DMCs can be adapted and used under most socioeconomic and agroclimatic conditions in the world, and it is even possible to recover land that has been left idle (considered as wasteland) under conventional farming conditions with tillage.
