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Spanish to English translations [PRO] Agriculture / sustainable agriculture techniques
Spanish term or phrase:agro-nivel
¡Socorro! I've been looking and looking and looking for this and i CAN NOT Find it! In English, that is. Plus I have a sneaking suspicion it's something really simple. Anyway, it's a simple tool used to plot the curve where you are going to plant on a slope (terraced farming). At least that's what I've been able to understand so far. This is listed within the section: Participating families implement agro-ecological production practices on their farms and in their homes, in an agricultural project being implemented in Honduras. It's just a list of practices, so there's not much more context to be had from the sentence.
Explanation: Check the diagrams in the first two references - they show the same tool.
Cuando se aplican estas prácticas en terrenos inclinados o de laderas es necesario hacer uso del agronivel o nivel "A", con el cual se trazan las curvas a nivel o a desnivel.
Two contour-marking techniques which are accurate enough and cheap enough for rural Niger are the A-frame level and the water level.
The A-frame level (Figure 3.8) is the less expensive of the two levels. You need three long sticks at least 2 meters long, 2 meters of string, a weight of about 1kg. and some wire to tie it all together.
Plowing
along contours, rather than up and down the slope, slows surface runoff and directs water toward your crops. A tool called an **A-frame level** can help you find your land’s contour lines so you can build contour barriers.
An A-frame level is a simple, inexpensively built tool to use for mapping contours (Figure 5). To build one, use rope or vines to securely fasten three poles or bamboo pieces to form a rigid letter "A" 2 m high and 1 m wide at the bottom. Tie string or twine to the joint of two
The first step in preparing the field is to use a simple A-frame level (which can be made with three straight tree branches, twine, and a rock; see photo) to delineate rows against the slope of the land. If one leg of the level is higher or lower than the other, the weighted twine will fall too far to the right or left of center on the crossbar, showing that the row being marked is not horizontally level.
any agrees since I'd never heard of this tool, but I'd still like to thank the contributing colleagues for providing more grist to the agri-lexical mill.
Explanation: Leveller - Puddler, Grader Leveller, Steel Puddler
We are a leading manufacturer of a wide range leveller, ***agricultural leveller*** that is used for grader leveller to facilitate uniform irrigation. ... www.agriimplement.com/leveller.html -
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- agricultural leveller
- land leveller
HEAVY DUTY LAND LEVELLERS' are ideal for leveling, filling farm yard clearing etc. Soil retaining wings can be optionally fitted on both ends of the blade for carrying the soil without spillage. It is suitable for sticky soils as well. http://www.agriimplement.com/leveller.html
Cristina intern Germany Local time: 19:57 Works in field Native speaker of: Italian PRO pts in category: 8
Explanation: The main workshop was on the construction of the agro-nivel – an ancient tool made of three poles, string, and a rock that gages the level of the land in order to design terraces for planting. http://forusa.org/programs/colombia/col-pp-update0806.html
Explanation: Check the diagrams in the first two references - they show the same tool.
Cuando se aplican estas prácticas en terrenos inclinados o de laderas es necesario hacer uso del agronivel o nivel "A", con el cual se trazan las curvas a nivel o a desnivel.
Two contour-marking techniques which are accurate enough and cheap enough for rural Niger are the A-frame level and the water level.
The A-frame level (Figure 3.8) is the less expensive of the two levels. You need three long sticks at least 2 meters long, 2 meters of string, a weight of about 1kg. and some wire to tie it all together.
Plowing
along contours, rather than up and down the slope, slows surface runoff and directs water toward your crops. A tool called an **A-frame level** can help you find your land’s contour lines so you can build contour barriers.
An A-frame level is a simple, inexpensively built tool to use for mapping contours (Figure 5). To build one, use rope or vines to securely fasten three poles or bamboo pieces to form a rigid letter "A" 2 m high and 1 m wide at the bottom. Tie string or twine to the joint of two
The first step in preparing the field is to use a simple A-frame level (which can be made with three straight tree branches, twine, and a rock; see photo) to delineate rows against the slope of the land. If one leg of the level is higher or lower than the other, the weighted twine will fall too far to the right or left of center on the crossbar, showing that the row being marked is not horizontally level.
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