Conservation Agriculture Mitigates the Effects of Climate Change

Intensive tillage based conventional agriculture have high global warming potential. Alternative to this, conservation (CA) systems utilize soils for the production of crops by reducing excessive tillage, maintaining crop residue on soil surface, and adoption rotations. The paper attempts review findings CA experiments under different cropping within outside country. It has been found that increases sustains productivities, mitigates green house gas emissions from enhancing carbon sequestration, improving nutrient status water use efficiencies, fuel consumption. Mainstreaming in Nepal is hindered its knowledge gap, inadequate farm machineries tools, small holdings, poor infrastructures, lack friendly policy support. Therefore, there an urgent need test, verify scale-out technologies Agricultural Research Council (NARC) across agro-ecologies through farmer-centered partnership among international institutions, public private sector Nepal.