Soil compaction causes substantial reduction in agriculture productivity and has always
been of great distress for farmers. Intensive agriculture seems to be more crucial in causing …

Soil structure forms a key component of soil quality, and its assessment by semi‐quantitative
visual soil evaluation (VSE) techniques can help scientists, advisors and farmers make …

Poor soil quality and low fertility are major limitations to agricultural intensification and
increasing crop productivity under rainfed hill ecosystems of North Eastern Region (NER) of …

Conventional tillage disturbs soil structure, increasing the soil's susceptibility to compaction
by machinery traffic in sugarcane fields. In this sense, the adoption of reduced tillage or no …

Progressive soil compaction is a disadvantage of intensive tillage. Compaction exerts a
negative impact on the physical properties of soil and decreases crop performance. The …

Grass/legume leys are commonly included in the crop rotation in mixed farming systems in
cold or humid regions in order to sustain the supply of nutrients and maintain soil fertility …

Soil structure plays a key role in the ability of soil to fulfil essential functions and services in
relation to, eg, root growth, gas and water transport and organic matter turnover. The …

Crop residue retention has been considered a practicable strategy to improve soil organic
carbon (SOC) and total nitrogen (TN), but the effectiveness of residue retention might be …

The transmission of stress induced by agricultural machinery within an agricultural soil is
typically modelled on the basis of the theory of stress transmission in elastic media, usually …

As the use of visual soil evaluation (VSE) methods has spread globally, they have been
exposed to different climatic and pedological scenarios, resulting in the need to elucidate …