The preseant study attempts to assess and compare the economic impact of Conservation Agriculture (CA) over traditional farming (TF) in Telangana state of India, across 2019-20 and 2020-21. 100 sample farm households were taken into consideration from each farming situation through multi-stage sampling technique. The study evaluates productivity differences in the predominant paddy-maize cropping system due to technology intervention by employing Bisaliah decomposition and Difference in Differences (DiD) approach. The results reveal that the paddy-maize cropping system under CA has achieved a hike of 6.92% and 11.70% actual gain in system productivity over TF in these years, where the estimated change was statistically at par with the actual change. Farmers have enjoyed a 9.82% increase in returns under CA with curtailment of 11.17% cost, resulting in a significant increase in profit margin (39.42%) and

return-cost ratio (23.97%) as compared to TF. Temporally, a productivity gap of 972.44 kg was observed in 2019-20 between CA and TF, which widened to 1432.34 kg in 2020-21, resulting in an overall system gain of 459.90 kg under CA. These hikes are attributed to technological intervention regarding changing method of cultivation practices, including minimum tillage, application of organic matter in soil with less NPK application and less workforce requirement in the field. Thus, CA needs to be recommended, which could protect the soil from degradation and losses