ABSTRACT
The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations has determined that conservation agriculture (CA) has various key principles that producers can proceed through in the process of CA. In the field of CA there are many benefits that can be obtained by both the producer and conservationist. Changes in tillage as well as land and water management practice, and a better understanding of drivers of the diversification process may require adjustments in all of the component technology for the new systems. Substitution of conventional tillage with zero or minimum tillage for wheat planting in rice—wheat system in Indo-Gangetic plains is a development of regional significance and contributes to the global application of resource conservation technologies (RCTs) in to a new eco-system. Locally adapted RCTs appropriate to resource endowments of farmers and the biophysical environment hold potential to improve management of natural resources and provide sustainable increases in productivity.
