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 …

Rice–wheat crop** system, intensively followed in Indo-Gangetic plains (IGP), played a
prominent role in fulfilling the food grains demand of the increasing population of South …

Role of soil to meet global food security, sustainable intensification and food nutritional
quality has got renewed attention with a larger focus on soil physical condition. No-tillage …

A three-year field experiment was carried out to assess the efficacy of various tillage and
residue management practices, as well as weed management approaches, in a rice–wheat …

Conservation-agriculture and organic-farming are two sustainable-agriculture approaches to
ensure food security and environmental-sustainability. Hence, a field study assessed the …

The conventional method of intensive tillage alters the soil environment, destroys soil
aggregates, depletes soil organic carbon (SOC), emits more carbon, requires higher energy …

Rice-wheat crop** system (RWCS) is the most important system occupying around 26 M
ha spread over the Indo Gangetic Plains in South Asia and China. Many long-term trials …

Abstract In the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains (EIGP), conventional rice-wheat system has led
to a decline in productivity, input-use efficiency, and profitability. To address these, a four …

Conservation agriculture (CA) coupled with the integrated crop management (ICM)-practices
based on a whole-farm approach could preserve the agroecosystems to achieve the soil …

No-till is often referred to as a climate change mitigation option, possibly with a stronger
conviction, than as a practice to manage soil organic C (SOC) content. We conducted a …