ABSTRACT
The progress reported and evaluated at this conference on the use of zero-tillage (ZT) practices in the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) of South Asia is very welcome in a region where it is crucial to maintain advances in agricultural productivity while also conserving the natural resource base on which further advances depend. It should not be surprising that ZT practices offer South Asian farmers the same kinds of benefits that their counterparts in Brazil and other countries in Latin America's Southern Cone have gotten from ZT (Calegari, 2002).
