During 2020, some 625,639 hectares of vineyard crops used the minimum tillage technique 630,342 ha as the main technique for soil maintenance in this crop, 0.75% and 4,703 ha less than in 2019, representing 27.46% of the total use of the same in the woody crops as a whole, and also being 64.9% of the total vineyard area (964,037 ha) analysed.
In these cases, minimum tillage is the surface tillage technique, using cultivators, harrows and chisel ploughs, at a depth of less than 20 centimetres. This is a tillage activity that preserves the soil structure better and therefore has less impact on soil erosion, favouring environmental conversation.
