Agriculture provides the largest share of food supplies and ensures a critical number of
ecosystem services (eg, food provisioning). Therefore, agriculture is vital for food security …

Purpose Soil is a thin coating of matter that covers the earth's surface, formed through the
process of rock weathering. It is a natural filter for impurities in groundwater and is very …

Of late, intensive farming for higher food production is often associated with many negative
implications for soil systems, such as decline of soil organic matter (SOM), increase in risks …

Improving soil water holding capacity (WHC) through conservation agriculture (CA)-
practices, ie, minimum mechanical soil disturbance, crop diversification, and soil mulch …

Intensive tillage coupled with crop residue burning in rice-wheat (RW) system is a serious
issue that causes soil degradation and environmental pollution. Soil organic carbon (SOC) …

Tillage is one of the agricultural management practices that significantly impacts
agroecosystems, crop production, and the environment. Conventional tillage (CT) practices …

Understanding the global patterns and controls on soil aggregation and associated organic
carbon (OC) is essential to improve soil carbon storage and mitigate climate warming. Crop …

Studying the impact of different tillage systems on soil organic matter (SOM) dynamics is
essential to define better strategies to improve soil fertility and soil organic carbon (SOC) …

Abstract In the Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia, the quadruple challenges of deteriorating
soil quality, declining groundwater, energy shortages, and diminishing farm profitability …

Conventional-till (CT) agriculture is known to be ecologically indiscreet, economically and
environmentally unsustainable, and leads to degradation of soil and environment in Indo …