Published Jan 23, 2023
A method of farming that involves maintaining a permanent cover of soil, minimal disturbance, and diversifying the plant species.
The Indo-Gangetic plains have seen much agricultural growth through conservation agriculture in the past 20 years.
Conservation agriculture methods include providing a permanent organic soil cover, minimising the disturbance to the soil, and crop diversification.
Providing a permanent cover through legumes enables the soil to adapt to any climate.
This is characterised by curbing machine tillage through hand seeding, restricting erosion.
Planting more than one crop yearly enriches the soil with nitrogen and phosphorus.