“…Puddling and other tillage practices obliterated pore connectivity, and lower aggregate stability caused clogging of pores during infiltration (Kukal & Aggarwal, 2002). There have been contrasting reports of higher infiltration rates (e.g., Das et al, 2018 (due to better pore connectivity) and Thierfelder & Wall, 2010 (due to residue retention and better aggregation)), lower infiltration rates (e.g., Liu, Zhang, Kravchenko, & Iqbal, 2015 (due to the lower amount of macropores in clay textured soil)) or no change (Cunha et al, 2015;Singh, Phogat, Dahiya, & Batra, 2014) in the infiltration rate through adoption of no-tillage or reduced tillage. A global metanalysis concluded there was higher soil infiltration rate with longer duration of adoption of no-tillage (Mondal, Chakraborty, Bandyopadhyay, & Aggarwal, 2019a,b).…”