<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.2d1 20170631//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"> <ArticleSet> <Article> <Journal> <PublisherName>emergentresearch</PublisherName> <JournalTitle>Emergent Life Sciences Research</JournalTitle> <PISSN>2395-6658 (</PISSN> <EISSN>) 2395-664X (Print)</EISSN> <Volume-Issue/> <PartNumber/> <IssueTopic>Multidisciplinary</IssueTopic> <IssueLanguage>English</IssueLanguage> <Season/> <SpecialIssue>N</SpecialIssue> <SupplementaryIssue>N</SupplementaryIssue> <IssueOA>Y</IssueOA> <PubDate> <Year>-0001</Year> <Month>11</Month> <Day>30</Day> </PubDate> <ArticleType>Research Article</ArticleType> <ArticleTitle>Effect of conservation agriculture on soil organic carbon, soil physical properties and yield of different cropping systems in Vertisols of central India</ArticleTitle> <SubTitle/> <ArticleLanguage>English</ArticleLanguage> <ArticleOA>Y</ArticleOA> <FirstPage>0</FirstPage> <LastPage>0</LastPage> <AuthorList> <Author> <FirstName>SOURABH</FirstName> <LastName>RAGHUWANSHI</LastName> <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage> <Affiliation/> <CorrespondingAuthor>N</CorrespondingAuthor> <ORCID/> </Author> </AuthorList> <DOI/> <Abstract>The intensive agriculture coupled with mechanization has become a threat to agricultural sustainability and hence, novel changes like conservation agriculture or regenerative agriculture are required to achieve desirable productivity and upkeep of natural resources. Conservation agriculture (CA) has become increasingly popular around the world and is seen at present as a sustainable and innovative farming approach to enhance agricultural productivity, mitigation of climate change, increase soil organic carbon and improve soil physical health. The present research investigated the effect of conservation agriculture on soil organic carbon (SOC), aggregate stability, soil penetration resistance (SPR) and yield of different cropping systems in terms of soybean grain equivalent yield (SGEY). The study was carried out in Vertisols of central India during the kharif (rainy season) and rabi (winter season) seasons of 2022–23 in the ongoing CRP-CA research project at the experimental farm of ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil Science, Bhopal (M.P.), initiated way back in 2010. The field experiment was established in a factorial randomized block design consisting of two tillage systems, no-tillage (NT) and conventional tillage (CT) and three cropping systems, namely, soybean-wheat, maize-wheat, and maize-gram, with four replications. Results revealed that CA-based NT plots have significantly higher SOC (0.93%), mean weight dimeter (1.29 mm) and water-stable aggregate (82.12%) compared to the CT plots on the surface layer (0–10 cm) of the soil. Tillage did not significantly affect soil penetration resistance on the surface of the soil (0–15 cm), but in lower depths (15–30 and 30-45 cm), SPR was significantly higher in CT compared to NT. Crop yield of NT in terms of SGEY (34.74 quintal ha-1) is significantly higher than CT (32.28 quintal ha-1). Thus, CA practices could be advocated as sustainable management practices for improving soil physical health and crop yields in the present era.</Abstract> <AbstractLanguage>English</AbstractLanguage> <Keywords>Conservation agriculture, No-tillage, Conventional tillage, Soil physical health, Soybean grain equivalent yield.</Keywords> <URLs> <Abstract>https://emergentresearch.org/ubijournal-v1copy/journals/abstract.php?article_id=15207&title=Effect of conservation agriculture on soil organic carbon, soil physical properties and yield of different cropping systems in Vertisols of central India</Abstract> </URLs> <References> <ReferencesarticleTitle>References</ReferencesarticleTitle> <ReferencesfirstPage>16</ReferencesfirstPage> <ReferenceslastPage>19</ReferenceslastPage> <References/> </References> </Journal> </Article> </ArticleSet>