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contour plowing

farming practice of plowing perpendicular to slopes to reduce soil erosion
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contour plowing

Summary

contour plowing ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (53 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • contour plowing's subclass of is recorded as ploughing[2].
  • contour plowing's Commons category is recorded as Contour farming[3].
  • contour plowing's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05pmf4[4].
  • contour plowing's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/contour-farming[5].
  • contour plowing's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/contour-bunding[6].
  • contour plowing's NALT ID is recorded as 28615[7].
  • contour plowing's Elhuyar ZTH ID is recorded as 130777[8].
  • contour plowing's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 128058477[9].
  • contour plowing's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 235193[10].

Why It Matters

contour plowing ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (53 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] It is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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