Question

How do conservation tillage practices in agriculture benefit the soil?

Answer 1

Conservation tillage can provide several benefits for agricultural systems such as soil conservation economic advantages associated with reductions in crop establishment time and energy use reduction in soil sheet erosion and nonpoint pollution and enhanced storage or retention of soil organic matter and improvement.

Answer 2

Well conservation tillage, means we do tillage and turn over soil and the plant residue that get in soil is 30%, this decomposition of 30% of plant recidues maintain the balance in the gas compostion in air, as decomposition of huge recidues at a time can cause imbalance of gas proportion in air, which has sideaffects