PERFORMANCE OF MAIZE UNDER CONSERVATION TILLAGE
Journal Title: International Journal of Agriculture Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 8, Issue 39
Abstract
Tillage is one of the basic agro-technical operations in agriculture because of its influence on soil properties, environment and crop growth. Since, continuous soil tillage strongly influences the soil physico-chemical and biological environment, hence, it is important to follow appropriate tillage practices that avoid the degradation of soil structure, maintain crop yield as well as ecosystem stability. Conventional mode of tillage associated with soil compaction, reduced soil organic matter and soil microbial diversity. Repeated tillage leads to sub-soil compaction, which is associated with the reduced beneficial use of water and nutrient recovery by crop plants. Recently, conservation agriculture (CA) based crop management practices involving lesser soil disturbance, soil cover and cost-effective cropping sequences found to be useful in lowering the production cost besides providing environmental services in terms of lower carbon emission and improved soil health. So, there is a need for adoption of the conservation agriculture in India for harnessing crop production profitability and making soil more productive with more environmental and social benefits. The literature about the performance of maize (Zea mays L.) under conservation tillage practices viz. zero tillage, permanent bed planting and reduced tillage are reviewed in this paper.
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M. R. YADAV
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