“…Conservation agriculture (CA) is one of the so-called emerging agrosciences (Lichtfouse et al, 2010) and encompasses techniques that minimize or eliminate tillage and, thus, maintain a vegetative cover that protects soil from its degradation. CA principles emanate from conservation tillage (CT), which includes no tillage (NT), reduced tillage (RT) and groundcovers (GC) in perennial crops (CTIC, 1994).…”