**6.4 Benefits**

When applied judiciously, targeted strategic tillage can impart multiple benefits to soil health and crop productivity compared to intensive conventional tillage. These include:

• *Increased Soil Organic Matter and Carbon Sequestration:* Reduced disturbance increases organic matter inputs while occasional mixing can stimulate microbial activity and aggregation to protect carbon [3, 4].



#### **Table 2.**

*Comprehensive benefits of strategic tillage practices in agriculture.*
