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Please see below a self-explanatory message from Dr. A.R.Sharma who has edited the book “Conservation Agriculture in India: A Paradigm Shift for Sustainable Production” published by Taylor & Francis Group.

Thank you Dr. Sharma for sharing.

Amir Kassam

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Conservation Agriculture (CA) is an ecological approach to regenerative sustainable agriculture and ecosystem management based on the practical application of context-specific and locally adapted three interlinked principles of: (i) Continuous no or minimum mechanical soil disturbance (no-till seeding/planting and weeding, and minimum soil disturbance with all other farm operations including harvesting);  (ii) permanent maintenance of soil mulch cover (crop biomass, stubble and cover crops); and (iii) diversification of cropping system (economically, environmentally and socially adapted rotations and/or sequences and/or associations involving annuals and/or perennials, including legumes and cover crops). These practices are complemented with other complementary good agricultural production and land management practices to generate and sustain optimum performance.

 

CA systems are present in all continents, involving rainfed and irrigated systems including annual cropland systems, perennial systems, orchards and plantation systems, agroforestry systems, crop-livestock systems, pasture and rangeland systems, organic production systems and rice-based systems. CA systems operate regeneratively at multiple levels to optimally harness a range of productivity, economic, environmental, and social benefits as well as address local and global concerns related to food and water security, climate change, land degradation, biodiversity and smallholder agricultural development.

 

Conservation Tillage, Reduced Tillage, Low tillage and Minimum Tillage are not CA, and nor is No-Till on its own. For a practice or a method to be referred to as a CA practice or method, it must be part of a CA system. If not, then it is what it is, a practice or a method similar to any other with its own name e.g., no-till seeding, or mulching, or crop diversification, etc. There is no such thing as partial CA.

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: AR Sharma <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 29 Sept 2022 at 14:05
Subject: Book on "Conservation Agriculture in India: A Paradigm Shift for Sustainable Production"
To: Amir Kassam <[log in to unmask]>

Respected Dr. Amir Kassam,

I am sharing with you my book “Conservation Agriculture in India: A Paradigm Shift for Sustainable Production” published by Taylor & Francis Group. This is based on my experiences and other researchers in India on the subject over the last 2-3 decades in different parts of the country.

This is one of the most important areas for research and technology development in resource management, which we need to take forward to meet the emerging challenges of resource degradation and climate change.

I thank you very much for contributing the first chapter for this book, which has really added value to this book.

I am attaching herewith a brief note on this book, which you may share with the CA Community.

Best regards.

Dr. A.R. Sharma

Director Research
Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University
(An Institution of National Importance)
Gwalior Road, Near Pahuj Dam
Jhansi 284003, Uttar Pradesh, INDIA
Mobile: 9425807290


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