it has not been generally practiced due to the requirements of energy saving during the farmer’s tillage operation.
In this study, ‘‘non-overturning hoeing tillage’’, a conservation tillage method is used to keep energy saving and reduce soil erosion. Specific objectives of this study were (1) to examine the influence of slope gradient on soil translocation under different tillage methods and (2) to compare non-overturning hoeing tillage with conventional tillage regarding the effects of soil conservation.