Mulch Film: Revolutionizing Modern Agriculture
With today's agriculture, with cost-saving resources and bountiful harvests the slogan of the day, film mulch is the magic-wand. That roll-up plastic covering spread over the face of the ground is full of high-tech innovations tackling the most critical problems farmers are struggling with worldwide today. Knowing what mulch film is, its various forms, and why it normally is applied, makes one appreciate the larger context in which it has now become one of the respected practices of productive and sustainable agriculture. What Mulch Film Is: A Cover for the Soil As a thin plastic sheet to be applied on land, basically agricultural in character on soil, mulch film becomes, in reality, a superior cover for the ground. As a cover of approximately environment and ground cover, it provides very substantial modification in plant microclimate. The cover is to be harnessed to various purposes as weed control, conservation of water, modification of ground temperature, and suppression of pe...