ABSTRACT
India agriculture is now at turning point as we have travelled a long way after the advent of green revolution. Over the past four to five decades our strategies, policies and actions were guided by goals of ‘self-sufficiency’ in food grains production via green revolution. Indian agriculture has reached a point where it must seek new directions – those by way of strategies, policies and actions which must be adopted to move forward addressing sustainable intensifications. Soil is a non-renewable natural resource on which agrarian activities such as agriculture, livestock and forestry are carried out. Traditional or conventional agriculture bases most of its operations or practices on soil tillage; i.e., inversion tillage such as mould board ploughing or disk harrow, or vertical tillage such as chisel, “spiked” harrow and other tools. Conservation agriculture has emerged as an effective strategy to achieve goals of sustainable agriculture worldwide.
