What is a Disc Plough?
Used for deep ploughing in farming, a disc plough works best in root-infested, stony, sticky and hard soils. The disc plough mixes remains of crops and weeds through deep ploughing, making it ideal farm equipment for areas with more rains for stop soil erosion by wind and water. It usually consists of 2 to 5 or more discs that cuts through the top layers of soil and thoroughly recreates the soil structure.
Regardless of land conditions a disc plough can handle the toughest ploughing jobs for extremely hard soil and grounds with large roots and other obstructions. It breaks, turns and mixes the soil and can be used easily. It is used as an attachment to the tractor pulled behind it.
What are the advantages of a Disc Plough?
There are different types of models of a disc ploughs in the market, such as mounted disc plough and coaxial disc ploughs. Here we have mentioned a few advantages of suing a disc plough in the field.
- A disc plough works in all types of soil to break, turn and mix the soil.
- It is majorly used to prepare the new fields for farming and process the stony areas.
- Makes ploughing easier in rocky and rooted areas.
- Very useful in hard and dry trashy land conditions.
- Works best in areas where soil erosion is a major problem.
- Disc Plough can be operated easily despite heavy crop residue.
What is a Mould- Board Plough?
A mold-board plough a vital farm equipment in soil maintenance. It is majorly used to prepare the soil before sowing seeds for giving it a final structure. An MB plough also works best when you need to prepare the ground for grass seeding. It consists of a set of large curved bottom that is called a mould-board fixed to a frame.
The plough has special wear-resistant steel blade located on the bottom edge of the mould-board. The MB plough cuts through the top layers of soil thoroughly and breaks up the clods in the soil. Advantages of the mould-board plough are mentioned below.
What are the advantages of a Mould-Board Plough?
- It breaks the heavy clods in the soil and gives it a smooth structure.
- If well-adjusted, the plough automatically finds the required depth and there is no need to apply extra weight to reach desired depth.
- The plough enhances the drainage properties in the soil.
- MB Plough is best suitable in areas where weed resurgence is a frequent occurrence, as the plough buries the weeds that tend to sprung up after harvesting. The MB plough thoroughly inverts the soil preventing the growth of weeds until the next season.
- The MB plough also protects the farm from the pests and helps provide plants with a more favorable environment for healthy growth.
- The Mould-board plough buries crop residues deeper into the field and enabling decomposition to happen which makes soil surface warm up faster.
