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cultivation land. cultivation land is an ancient vineyard practice. It destroys weeds and facilitates other vineyard operations such as irrigation. Contrary to common belief, cultivation land does not conserve soil moisture; however, the resulting destruction of weeds does conserve moisture. Discs or chisel-tooth cultivators are used, although some vineyards are still plowed. Heavy disc harrows are used to turn under weeds and cover crops. Weeds have been and are sometimes controlled with oil sprays or chemicals, usually diuron or monuron.

Standards of cultivation land are high and the general level of prosperity among the Punjab cultivators is markedly superior to that prevailing in most other states of India. This may be attributed in part to the relatively low population density—1.18 acres of cultivated land per person compared with the national average of only .92, and in part it is due to the high fertility of the soil.Oppressive land tenure conditions have for long hampered full development of the Punjab's resources. A large, although undetermined proportion of the land has traditionally been held by absentee landlords, who often charged their tenants exorbitant rents and resorted freely to capricious evictions.

There are two systems of orchard culture: one in which the land remains permanently in sod, termed sod culture ; the other in which the land, or part of it, is tilled, known as cultivation land. Both systems possess certain advantages and admit of variations. Sod culture, which reduces soil erosion and the runoff of surface water, is especially useful on hilly or rolling topography. On the other hand, sod culture increases competition for nutrients and water between tree and sod, thus necessitating the addition of a nitrogen-carrying fertilizer.