Resource conservation technologies for sustainable soil health management

Abstract

The soil health degradation is one of the important challenges before farmers, researchers and policy makers. This problem has resulted in plateaued or even declining agricultural productivity especially in arid and semi-arid tropics. It also threatened the livelihood of small and marginal farmers in these areas. This chapter describes how resource conservation technologies like minimum soil disturbance, adequate soil cover, crop rotations and agroforestry are useful in sustaining soil health and crop productivity especially in fragile areas.