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English translation: mulched ridges

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Italian term or phrase:	prose pacciamate
English translation:	mulched ridges
Entered by:	Barbara Carrara

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12:40 Jul 12, 2010

Italian to English translations [PRO]
Science - Agriculture

Italian term or phrase: prose pacciamate

Hi,

I am translating a report about the effects of soil decontamination treatment and I am struggling with the meaning of 'prose pacciamate'.

It appears several times throughout the text:

Dati relativi alla coltivazione
sistema di allevamento – su prosa pacciamata 1

sistema di distribuzione adottato – iniezione a freddo nel terreno a profondità di 25-30 cm mediante impiego di un tiller portato da trattrice cingolata, dotato di due falcioni tra loro distanti 40 cm, accoppiato a pacciamatore in grado di costituire una prosa di 80 cm di larghezza.

....Durante l’effettuazione dei trattamenti sono state, pertanto, costituite prose pacciamate tra loro parallele e distanti non meno di 80 cm.

Thanks

LouC1482 KudoZ activity Questions: 503 (6 open) (18 closed without grading) Answers: 0 United Kingdom
Local time: 01:35

mulched ridges

Explanation:
prosa = porca > ridge between two furrows
(source, Dizionario di Agricoltura, paper ed.)

pacciamare = mulching: the practice of spreading organic materials—such as straw, compost, or wood chips—over otherwise bare soil between and among crop plants. Mulching helps to conserve moisture, suppress weeds, and build soil organic matter.
(source, http://ucce.ucdavis.edu/files/filelibrary/1068/8286.pdf)

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For the synonymity of 'prosa' and 'porca', here's another (indirect) reference from the Wörterbuch der Landwirtschaft (sorry, hard copy only):
aratura a prose/porche: ridging

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Thanks

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Barbara Carrara
Italy
Local time: 02:35

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Summary of answers provided

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mulched ridges

Barbara Carrara

mulched inter-rows

Lucrezia Amedeo

mulched furrow

Dondule

Summary of reference entries provided

pacciamatura

Fabrizio Zambuto

Windrow

xxxMr Murray

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1 hr confidence:

mulched furrow

Explanation:
prosa=porca, furrow in english, i think...

Dondule
Local time: 02:35
Native speaker of:

Serbian
PRO pts in category: 4

7 hrs confidence:

mulched inter-rows

Explanation:
prose, prosone, colmini, magoli, passate e altre denominazioni locali

http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&client=firefox-a&rls=org.m...

Lucrezia Amedeo
Italy
Local time: 02:35
Native speaker of:

Italian
PRO pts in category: 8

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

mulched ridges

Barbara Carrara
Italy
Local time: 02:35
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Italian
PRO pts in category: 48

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agree

xxxMr Murray: This is much better - well done. There's a special name for these ridges, but it escapes me now....I just thought of it - windrows.

17 mins

-> Thanks. All my available sources point in the direction of 'ridges', but it may not be the only way of saying this.../'Windrow: row of the cut stalks of a crop, gathered together and laid on the ground to be dried by the wind' - IT: andana...

neutral

Dondule: i think that ridge cuold not bee mulched, just furrow http://iononperdonoetocco.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/patata-pa... su questo indirizzo si vede una prosa "che e pronta a ricevere le insalate invernali"

31 mins

-> ? / The asker's question is 'prose pacciamate', not 'solchi pacciamati'. 'Prosa/porca' is a ridge, not a furrow.

agree

BdiL: Yes. We might think to the sine function: where it's above the x-axis (max) it's the RIDGE (mound), where it's below the x-axis (min) it's the FURROW (it. solco). Maurizio

20 hrs

-> Hear, hear

Reference comments

35 mins

Reference: pacciamatura

Reference information:
I would say mulching techniques but, again, I don't spend much of my time on gardens or agricultural sites...
yet, after some search, I've found out that pacciamate comes pacciamatura (mulching).
so, check the italian wikipedia
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacciamatura (and you have the english version too)
then http://www.google.it/search?q=mulching technique&ie=utf-8&oe...

hope it helps...

Fabrizio Zambuto
Italy
Native speaker of:

Italian

2 hrs

Reference: Windrow

Reference information:
I'm still so amazed how 'prose' was connected to 'ridges.' Anyhow, I think even in this case - the ridges should be called 'windrows.' I haven't found a translation back to Italian of 'windrow' - so 'prose' seems reasonable.

windrow n. (plural windrows) a row of cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field; a line of leaves etc heaped up by the wind

[source Wiktionary online]

See the two Web references for more details.

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Andana is a likley translation from English to Italian for 'windrow.'

Translation

b>windrow composting n. (waste manag.), compostaggio in andana.
[source Hoepli's The Complete Technical Dictionary]

Example sentence:

"Il foraggio in andana viene raccolto dal raccoglitore chiamato pick-up, spostato lateralmente dalla coclea, inviato nella camera di compressione dall’infaldatore che può essere a vite oppure a o a coltello,... ." [source Wikipedia - Italian]

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windrow
Reference: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/windrow

xxxMr Murray
Italy
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

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Jul 15, 2010 - Changes made by Barbara Carrara:
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