“…Tillage also significantly influences crop productivity (Jha et al, 2011 [35,13,58,94,63,77,67,28,31,65,69] . Resource-conserving technologies (RCTs) such as reduced tillage (RT), no-till (NT), integrated nutrient management (INM), micronutrient use and residue retention have been validated in rice-wheat and maizewheat cropping systems under irrigated conditions in the Indo-Gangetic Plains (Porwal et [53,39,8,71,81,70,15,21,24,26,22,29,60,64] . However, research on the impact of RCTs on the productivity and sustainability of the rice-oat system in central India is lacking.…”