Conservation agriculture as a sustainable system for soil health: A review

B Cárceles Rodríguez, VH Durán-Zuazo… - Soil Systems, 2022 - mdpi.com
Soil health is a term used to describe the general state or quality of soil, and in an
agroecosystem, soil health can be defined as the ability of the soil to respond to agricultural …

The food-energy-water-carbon nexus in a maize-maize-mustard cropping sequence of the Indian Himalayas: An impact of tillage-cum-live mulching

GS Yadav, A Das, BK Kandpal, S Babu, R Lal… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Amid the current environmental crises that exert enormous pressure on the arable lands,
there is a need to adopt environment-friendly effective but highly productive conservation …

[HTML][HTML] Improved and sustainable agroecosystem, food security and environmental resilience through zero tillage with emphasis on soils of temperate and subtropical …

W Hassan, T Saba, F Jabbi, B Wang, A Cai… - International Soil and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Tillage is one of the agricultural management practices that significantly impacts
agroecosystems, crop production, and the environment. Conventional tillage (CT) practices …

Sugarcane production in the subtropics: Seasonal changes in soil properties and crop yield in no-tillage, inverting and minimum tillage

GO Awe, JM Reichert, E Fontanela - Soil and Tillage Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Sugarcane is one of the important energy crops grown globally. Despite the increased
sugarcane productivity, the mechanization of sugarcane production has caused the …

Soil carbon sequestration and soil quality change between no-tillage and conventional tillage soil management after 3 and 11 years of organic farming

RK Dewi, M Fukuda, N Takashima… - Soil Science and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of this study was to evaluate the long-term effect of no-tillage systems in organic
farming on soil carbon sequestration and soil quality, which is associated with nutrient …

Soil Erosion and sediments: a source of contamination and impact on agriculture productivity

I Rashmi, KS Karthika, T Roy, KC Shinoji… - Agrochemicals in Soil …, 2022 - Springer
Soil erosion is a multifactor threat to human beings and various ecosystem services.
Accelerated erosion is a manifestation of soil degradation which can have severe soil and …

Assessing the impacts of tillage and mulch on soil erosion and corn yield

D Chalise, L Kumar, R Sharma, P Kristiansen - Agronomy, 2020 - mdpi.com
Conventional tillage practices have been regarded as the major reason for the loss of fertile
topsoil in the sloping agricultural lands of the middle hills of Nepal. Reports on the effects of …

Improvement of soil health through residue management and conservation tillage in rice-wheat cropping system of Punjab, Pakistan

A Zahid, S Ali, M Ahmed, N Iqbal - Agronomy, 2020 - mdpi.com
In South Asia, soil health degradation is affecting the sustainability of the rice-wheat
cropping system (RWCS). Indeed, for the sustainability of the soil quality, new adaptive …

Weed infestation and productivity of wheat crop sown in various cropping systems under conventional and conservation tillage

WA Minhas, N Mumtaz, H Ur-Rehman… - Frontiers in plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Climate change, pest infestation, and soil degradation are significantly reducing
wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) yield. Wheat is cultivated in rice-wheat and cotton-wheat …

Mitigation of nutrient runoff loss using reduced nitrogen application and green manure planting in citrus orchard in Hubei, China

Y Luo, H Xiao, X Wu, X Wu, Y Wu, Y Jiang… - Journal of Soils and …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Purpose In central China, N fertilizer reduction and green manure planting are
dominant measures used by the government to improve N use efficiency in citrus orchards …