The field experiment was conducted at Department of Agronomy, V.N.M.K.V. Parbhani (MS) India during 2017-18 to study the effect of tillage and weed management practices of soybean-chickpea cropping system in vertisol”. The experiment was laid out in split plot design with fifteen treatment combinations replicated threes. The result of the study revealed that CT-CT recorded significantly highest seed yield, straw yield and economic yield of soybean-chickpea cropping system compared to other treatments. But at par with CT-ROT practices. Among the weed management practices weed free recorded significantly highest GMR, NMR and B:C ratio but it was at par with adoption pre and post emergence herbicide.

Highlights

• The excessive tillage not only deteriorates soil structure but also exploits intake amount of farm power energy.
• In semiarid region of India, expensive and energy consuming tillage operations, declining soil fertility and soil moisture limitation are major constraint for agricultural crop production.
• Use of resources conservation tillage techniques, like zero tillage and rotary tillage (RT) is right step in this direction as there technologies save time, energy, money and also help in improving the soil carbon status.