ABSTRACT
Conservation Agriculture (CA) is gaining importance as an alternative to conventional agriculture. CA is becoming popular worldwide due to its enhanced carbon sequestration potential and favourable effects on soil fertility, nutrient dynamics and overall soil quality. Climate change is likely to have a variety of impacts on soil quality. Research on resource conservation technologies emphasized that conservation agriculture plays an important role in restoring the dynamic attributes of soil quality. The soil quality can be measured quantitatively using physical, chemical and biological properties of soils as these properties interact in a complex way to give a soil its quality or capacity to function. It is a complete package of agricultural practices which not only protects the natural resources and environmental quality by slowing down the soil physical, chemical and biological quality degradation but also reduces cost of production and sustains yields.
