Abstract            Volume:13  Issue-2  Year-2025         Original Research Articles

Online ISSN : 2347 - 3215 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcret@gmail.com

Continuous and use of conventional management techniques like deep tillage, removal of crop residues and indiscriminate use of fertilizers led to a loss of soil organic carbon, which has worsened soil degradation and reduced the soil's physical, chemical, and biological qualities. Soil organic carbon (SOC) is a crucial component of soil that enhances agricultural productivity, soil fertility, soil tilth, and soil sustainability in general. The depletion of SOC leads to poor soil aggregation and stability, loss in water holding capacity, fertility, enzymatic activities and soil biology. In this regard, preservation of SOC can be considered as an essential measure as it ensures improvement of soil quality and ultimately crop productivity. This paper review potential influence conservation agriculture practice on soil organic carbon and soil labile organic carbon fractionation. Conservation agriculture practices, comprising minimum soil disturbance, crop residue mulch with crops diversification which has the ability to maintain SOC and the subsequent impacts on soil properties and crop yields. By reducing soil disturbance, conservation agriculture helps to maintain SOC, improve soil structure, reduce the turnover rate of macro aggregates, enhancing the physical protection of labile soil organic matter, minimize soil degradation, conserve water, reduce the use of harmful chemicals in terms of synthetic nutrients, enhance soil fertility and increase crop production. Thus our review indicated that adoption of conservation agriculture practice increase soil fertility by improving SOC, reduce CO2emission which used for climate change mitigation, and improve crop production. Received: 05 December 2024 Accepted: 23 January 2024 Available Online: 20 February 2025

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