Minimum tillage

Minimum tillage is a type of tillage that involves minimal soil disturbance compared to conventional tillage. Tillage can be reduced in two ways: 1) Omitting some of the operations that do not give satisfactory benefit. For example, nursery bed raising can be eliminated and rice seeds can be directly sown in the main field, and 2) Combining the agricultural operations viz., seeding and fertilizer application using seed cum fertilizer drill.