Evolution of Smart Strategies and Machines Used for Conservative Management of Herbaceous and Horticultural Crops in the Mediterranean Basin: A Review

Preserving soil quality and increasing water availability is an important challenge to ensure food production for a growing global population. As demonstrated by several studies, conservative crop management, combined with cover diversification, can significantly reduce losses. The aim of this review evaluate the spread smart solutions perform conservation agriculture (CA) well in Mediterranean Basin, taking into account evolution strategies machines used tillage systems different contexts last 30 years, as effects induced their adoption on productivity herbaceous horticultural crops, weed control economic feasibility, comparison those obtained utilizing conventional techniques based inversion.