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Ayele Desalegn, Tilahun Getachew, Getacher Kassa, Temesgen Yilma, Lisanu Getaneh

• Tillage systems are sequences of operations that manipulate the soil in order to produce a crop it include tilling, planting, fertilization, pesticide application, harvesting, and residue chopping or shredding. Tillage has its own important, in other way it have drawback in the long run; due to the negative impact of tillage scholars reported the importance of conservation tillage. So this experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of different tillage systems for sustainable crop production in Efratana Gidim, using sorghum and Mung bean as a test crop. (1) No tillage (NT) that is minimum disturbance for seed sowing, (2) tillage (T) which is 4 tillage operations before sowing, (3) No tillage with residue retention (NT+R) which is minimum disturbance during sowing and 30% residue retention on the filed during harvest and (4) tillage and residue incorporation (T+R) that is similar to treatment (3) except 30% residue incorporated during tillage. The result of the analysis of the twoTillage systems are sequences of operations that manipulate the soil in order to produce a crop it include tilling, planting, fertilization, pesticide application, harvesting, and residue chopping or shredding. Tillage has its own important, in other way it have drawback in the long run; due to the negative impact of tillage scholars reported the importance of conservation tillage. So this experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of different tillage systems for sustainable crop production in Efratana Gidim, using sorghum and Mung bean as a test crop. (1) No tillage (NT) that is minimum disturbance for seed sowing, (2) tillage (T) which is 4 tillage operations before sowing, (3) No tillage with residue retention (NT+R) which is minimum disturbance during sowing and 30% residue retention on the filed during harvest and (4) tillage and residue incorporation (T+R) that is similar to treatment (3) except 30% residue incorporated during tillage. The result of the analysis of the two sorghum production years confirmed that the tillage with 30% residue incorporation could marginally gave statistically greater (p<0.05) yield. Even though it is not statistically different (P<0.05), the yield of mung bean was also numerically higher in tillage with 30% residue incorporation. The crop yield analysis confirmed that the conventional tillage with 30% residue incorporation could gave 3.94 % and 27.49% sorghum and mung bean yield advantage respectively compared to the tillage (conventional practice). Based on the result we conclude that the tillage integrated with 30% residue incorporation could have benefit for crop productivity.…