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Tech/Engineering - Agriculture / CAP - crops | | French term or phrase: couvert environnemental | Would this be grassed areas? Grass cover? Is there an equivalent term in English? See right at the end - thanks!
Le domaine « environnement » contient des fiches consacrées à la protection des eaux souterraines et de surface, en obligeant l’agriculteur à respecter un plafond de 170 kg d’azote par hectare. Cette réglementation de l’épandage agricole peut éventuellement faire l’objet de mission d’assistance auprès des exploitants.
Les deux autres domaines sont moins intéressants en vue de développer de nouvelles activités pour X, ils conditionnent les aides uniquement en fonction des pratiques agricoles, comme le non brûlage des résidus agricoles, la diversité des assolements, la mise en place d’un ***couvert environnemental***, l’utilisation réglementée des pesticides… |
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| | plant cover | Explanation:
couvert environnemental is another name for a "couvert vegetal" when it has a more specific environmental purpose (as opposed to agricultural, etc.)
note that "buffer zones" are "aires tampons" or "zones peripheriques"
and "grass strips" are limited to grass, comme son nom l'indique.
(sorry for the absence of accents on the French vowels) |
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Francis Marche
Cambodia
Local time: 22:53
| Grading comment Yes, and it wasn't a question of simply grass, although the other answers were helpful as this is sometimes the case.
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