Rizzo, Davide2024-12-302024-12-302024-10-30https://africarxiv.ubuntunet.net/handle/1/1807https://doi.org/10.60763/africarxiv/1688The 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.Image