Appropriate tillage application, along with proper fertilisation, massively affects soil structure, both physical and chemical properties of the soil and, consequently, the plant's yield potential. This is because the seedling emergence and establishment and, later, the plant's development and final yield are considerably affected by the physical properties of the seed bed prepared by tilling the soil (Xue et al. 2018). The misapplication of these practices can reduce soil productivity (Ultra et al. 2017), especially in areas with unfavourable climatic episodes like drought (Houshyar and Esmailpour 2020).Through conventional tillage (plowing), the morefertile soil from the top layers is buried into deeper layers, where the active root zone is (Nouraein et al.