No-Tillage Promotes Wheat Seedling Growth and Grain Yield Compared with Plow–Rotary Tillage in a Rice–Wheat Rotation in the High Rainfall Region in China

Li, Fujian; Zhang, Xinbo; Xu, Ding; Ma, Quan; Le, Tao; Zhu, Min; Li, Chunyan; Zhu, Xiufang; Guo, Wenshan; Ding, Jinfeng

doi:10.3390/agronomy12040865

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“…After a comparative study with different tillage methods, Chengyan Zheng [66] noticed that crop yields under no-tillage in southern China were 3.4% higher than those under conventional tillage. Comparing no-tillage and plow-rotary tillage in a rice-wheat rotation in Jiangsu Province, China, Fujian Li [67] provided evidence that conservation tillage improved soil health and food production. Facing the problems of soil erosion in Southwest China, conservation tillage is able to use mulching to slow erosion.…”

Section: South Chinamentioning

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Application of Conservation Tillage in China: A Method to Improve Climate Resilience

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In the context of climate change, agricultural cultivation, as one of the most vulnerable sectors, is under threat. Extreme weather and climate conditions have caused a series of problems, such as yield loss, more serious pests and diseases, and declining biodiversity. Conservation tillage is considered a potential method to improve climate resilience, yet the intrinsic mechanism of how conservation tillage functions to improve the climate resilience of agriculture is uncertain. Here, we performed document analysis to explore how conservation tillage stabilizes and increases crop yield and reduces greenhouse gases. We reviewed the definition of resilience and proposed the practice of conservation tillage. Our research found that conservation tillage has the potential of improving soil health and reducing greenhouse gases to enhance climate resilience. Although there is some evidence demonstrating that conservation tillage has a negative impact on crop yield and greenhouse gases, we still advocate the adoption of conservation tillage according to local conditions. We suggest that choosing proper practices, such as crop rotation, the use of cover crops, and holistic grazing, when used along with conservation tillage, can maximize the benefits of conservation tillage and alleviate the possible negative effects of this practice.

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Section: South Chinamentioning

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Application of Conservation Tillage in China: A Method to Improve Climate Resilience

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“…A suitable method of tillage and sowing can improve the soil environment and seedbed quality in wheat production, contributing to strong seedling growth and higher grain yield [4,8,26]. The present study shows that compared with TS2 (full tillage and sowing in the drill), TS1 (full tillage and broadcast sowing) increased the tiller number (more culms per m 2 seedlings and tillers per seedling), while TS3 (strip tillage and sowing in drill) contributed to vigorous seedling growth (higher leaf area and shoot weight per m 2 seedlings and per seedling) in both years and was similar with TS1 in terms of tiller number in 2020 (Table 1).…”

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“…Although TS1 used broadcasting with soil surface seeding, thus promoting quick and vigorous seedling growth, TS3 also achieved comparable or even better seedling growth compared with TS1. The crucial reason was that strip tillage, similar to no-tillage, contributed to the enrichment of surface nutrients compared to full tillage, which facilitated the growth of the shallow roots and thus enhanced nutrient absorption efficiency [26]. The results also show that TS1 and TS3 improved the maximum leaf area and grains per m 2 compared with TS2, except that there were similar maximum leaf area and grains per m 2 values between TS1 and TS2 in 2020 possibly due to the favorable growing conditions during winter and early spring (Table 3).…”

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“…It is difficult to conduct the full tillage in such poor soil. The poor soil brings the issues of low emergence, weak seedlings, and disappointingly low grain yield [4,26]. In addition, frequent rainfall occurred during the seeding and seedling stages, increasing the risk of waterlogging stress in tillage soil [25], which inhibits root growth, nutrient uptake, and leaf photosynthetic capacity [27][28][29].…”

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Strip Tillage Improves Grain Yield and Nitrogen Efficiency in Wheat under a Rice–Wheat System in China

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Yang

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To characterize the adaptability of strip tillage for wheat production in a rice–wheat rotation system in China, a two-year experiment was conducted. Three methods of tillage and sowing were designed, including broadcast and drill sowing following full tillage (TS1 and TS2) as well as drill sowing following strip tillage (TS3), under two planting densities. Compared to TS2, TS1 only increased seedling tiller number (by 17%–54%) at the beginning of the over-wintering stage, while TS3 improved tiller number, leaf area, and shoot weight (by 17%–39%, 14%–15%, and 19%–27%, respectively), achieving individual seedlings with improved growth vigor. An increased planting density (300 vs. 225 plants m−2) significantly promoted culms, leaf area, and shoot weight per m2 seedlings (by 8%–14%, 7%–23%, and 11%–19%, respectively) under TS3, improving seedling growth quality. The present results indicate that vigorous seedling growth promoted the potential and synergy of the source and sink (maximum leaf area, grains per m2, and sink–source ratio), thereby increasing grain yield. Furthermore, TS3 promoted nitrogen (N) uptake (by 7%–9%) compared with TS1 and TS2. The present study highlights the good adaptability and applicability of strip tillage for the environmentally conscious and efficient production of wheat in rice–wheat rotation systems.

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“…Rice-Wheat (R-W) is the predominant cropping pat-tern in Bangladesh, occupying around 0.8 million hectares of land [1] . In this system, rice is cultivated during the rainy season (July~October) while wheat is cultivated during the dry season (November~March).…”

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Land Use, Productivity, and Profitability of Traditional Rice–Wheat System Could be Improved by Conservation Agriculture

Hossain

Begum

Bell

2022

Res. World Agric. Econ.

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Power tiller-driven plow tillage and crop residue exclusionary Traditional Agriculture practices are expensive, labor demanding, soil damaging, and eco-unfriendly. Over the last several years, pursuits of crop production through sustaining the productive capacity of soils, and environmental quality, have raised concern to adopt Conservation Agriculture worldwide. Single tillage combined with herbicides and crop residue retention principles of Conservation Agriculture are being developed. Between 2016–2017 and 2017–2018, a two-year on-farm experiment was done in Bangladesh. We practiced two crop establishment methods; Traditional Agriculture: Plow tillage followed by three manual weeding without residue preservation of previous crop and Conservation Agriculture: Pre-plant herbicide + single tillage + pre-emergence herbicide + post-emergence herbicide; under rice–wheat and rice–wheat–mungbean systems. Data reveal that the Conservation Agriculture was more cost-effective crop establishment technique than Traditional Agriculture in rice, wheat, and mungbean by increasing the ratio of benefit to costs by 24.3%, 35.7% and 48.8%, respectively, with a savings in tillage operations (66.3%, 58.1%, and 57.6%, respectively), weeding expenditures (59.2%, 24.5%, and 42.2%, respectively), and manpower requirements (25.1%, 27.2%, and 31.3%, respectively). This has resulted in an increase of 32% productivity of rice–wheat–mungbean systems with the yield advantage of 16%, 31% and 37% in rice, wheat and mungbean, respectively. When mungbean was added, the rice–wheat system’s productivity rose by 43%. The rice–wheat–mungbean system under Traditional Agriculture had the highest land utilization efficiency (99.45%), followed by Conservation Agriculture (92.05%), which expanded the scope to include additional crops into rice–wheat–mungbean system. Moreover, the Conservation Agriculture had a 59.7% greater production efficiency than Traditional Agriculture, where the rice–wheat–mungbean system having the highest production efficiency (53.00 kg–1 ha–1 day–1), followed by the rice–wheat system (45.57 kg–1 ha–1 day–1).

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No-Tillage Promotes Wheat Seedling Growth and Grain Yield Compared with Plow–Rotary Tillage in a Rice–Wheat Rotation in the High Rainfall Region in China

Cited by 5 publications

References 72 publications

Application of Conservation Tillage in China: A Method to Improve Climate Resilience

Application of Conservation Tillage in China: A Method to Improve Climate Resilience

Strip Tillage Improves Grain Yield and Nitrogen Efficiency in Wheat under a Rice–Wheat System in China

Land Use, Productivity, and Profitability of Traditional Rice–Wheat System Could be Improved by Conservation Agriculture

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