Types of Tillage

a) Minimum Tillage – It is the minimum soil manipulation necessary to meet tillage requirements for crop production.

b) Strip Tillage – It is a tillage system in which only isolated bands of soil are tilled.

c) Rotary Tillage -It is the tillage operations employing rotary action to cut, break and mix the soil.

d) Mulch Tillage -It is the preparations of soil in such a way that plant residues or other mulching materials are specially left on or near the surface.

e) Combined Tillage -Operations simultaneously utilizing two or more different types of tillage tools or implements to simplify, control or reduce the number of operations over a field are called combined tillage.