This is an
operation usually carried out before the conventional tillage in a farm land. Generally,
there are several operations that are involved in land clearing depending on
the type of vegetation, soil condition, topography, the extent of clearing required
and the purpose for which the clearing is done. The operations includes the
following listed below;
- Removal of all vegetation at the ground level and moving and stacking them in windrows for burning so that roots are left to decay or to be removed at later dates.
- Removal of all tree and stumps include roots, and moving and stacking them in windrows for subsequent burning.
- Ploughing and mixing in the vegetation to a soil depth of about 20cm and allowing it to decay.
- Knocking all vegetation down and crushing it to the surface of the ground to be either burnt or left to decay.
- Killing or retarding the growth of small trees by cutting the roots below surface of the ground and leaving them to decay or removing and stacking them for subsequent burning if necessary.
Mechanized agriculture
requires a proper land clearing completion that will avert premature failure of
the conventional tillage machines put in use subsequently and minimize soil
nutrient depletion and structural damage due to interacting heavy land clearing
equipment-bulldozer and so on. To avert these adverse effects, it is usually
advisable that land clearing should be better done in the dry season when the
soil has adequate mechanical stability or impendence to resist soil deformation
or structural damage. This is at minimal soil moisture content, the risk of
soil structural damage is minimized with the corresponding high shear strength
which can withstand both the vertical and horizontal loads of the tractor –
implement aggregate.
Total removal
of vegetation is required for land clearing done for highway, dam construction
and as well as building site for poultry. In these particular requirements, the
need to preserve the top soil (that houses the essential nutrient) and avert
the soil structural damage is inconsequential unlike in mechanized agriculture.
The following factors among others, affect the rate of clearing;
- Rainfall
- Topography
- Equipment used
- Skill of equipment operators
- The end use of the land being cleared
- Sizes and kinds of trees
- Density of vegetation
- Soil condition
The aforementioned
factors listed above determine the various capacities of equipment used for
land clearing for farm operations or for any other constructional operations.
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