Farmer with a Spring-Tooth Cultivator Tillage monted on a tractor, near Skalba, Tunisia
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2024-10-30
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Rizzo, Davide
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The image features a farmer operating a tractor equipped with a spring-tooth cultivator on a gently sloping agricultural field near Skalba, Menzel Temime, in the Gouvernorat de Nabeul, Tunisia. The field is covered with a green crop at an early growth stage, most probably of a winter cereal (e.g., wheat or barley). The spring-tooth cultivator, mounted to the rear of the tractor, is a tillage implement with flexible curved tines designed to aerate the soil, break up clods, and manage weeds with minimal disturbance to soil structure. This scene illustrates a fall farming practice in a semi-arid rainfed farming system.