This leaflet covers the main aspects of soil compaction in Conservation Agriculture.

Conservation agriculture optimizes soil structure for reduced-cost, sustainable cropping systems that maximize the use of rainfall and irrrigation water for improved and more guaranteed productivity. The overall outcome is the more productive soil system that obtains the best from even a ‘poor’ soil because of the enhanced soil water store and deep rooting system in an uncompacted, biologically diverse and organic-matter-rich soil.