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June 1, 2015International Soil and Water Conservation ResearchOpen Access

Conservation tillage impacts on soil, crop and the environment

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MBMutiu Abolanle BusariSKS. S. KukalAKAmanpreet Kaur

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Literature review demonstrates conservation tillage enhances soil quality and crop yields while cutting emissions across agro-ecological regions, indicating its value for climate adaptation.

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  • Synthesize existing research to assess how conservation tillage influences soil physical, chemical, and biological health, crop productivity, and environmental outcomes across varied agro-ecological zones.
  • Reviewed global literature on conservation agriculture and tillage across multiple agro-ecological regions.
  • Evaluated soil physical, chemical, and biological responses as well as crop yields under conservation tillage systems compared to conventional tillage.
  • Conservation tillage consistently enhances soil physical, chemical, and biological properties alongside crop yields when compared directly against conventional tillage.
  • Zero tillage demonstrated superior performance as an environmentally sustainable strategy for climate change mitigation and adaptation, directly mitigating agricultural processes that drive not less than 25% of atmospheric greenhouse gas effluxes.

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Busari et al. (2015) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d7c60133ca018b39ae2b6bhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.iswcr.2015.05.002
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