Conservation agriculture: Concepts, brief history, and impacts on agricultural systems

Muhammad Farooq; Kadambot H.M. Siddique

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-11620-4_1

Conservation agriculture: Concepts, brief history, and impacts on agricultural systems

Muhammad Farooq^*, Kadambot H.M. Siddique

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Abstract

Conservation agriculture (CA) is characterized by minimal soil disturbance, diversified crop rotations, and surface crop residue retention to reduce soil and environmental degradation while sustaining crop production. CA involves changing many conventional farming practices as well as the mindset of farmers to overcome the conventional use of tillage operations. Although adoption of CA is increasing globally, in some regions it is either slow or nonexistent. The adoption of CA has both agricultural and environmental benefits but there is a lack of information on the effects and interactions of key CA components which affect yield and hinder its adoption. In this chapter, we discuss the basic concepts and brief history of CA, and its impacts on agricultural systems.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Conservation Agriculture
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	3-17
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319116204
ISBN (Print)	9783319116198
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11620-4_1
Publication status	Published - Jan 1 2015

Keywords

Adoption
Crop residues
Crop rotations
Farm machinery
Weed management

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Engineering
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
General Environmental Science

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