International Journal of Pure & Applied Bioscience (IJPAB)
Year : 2017, Volume : 5, Issue : 1
First page : (425) Last page : (443)
Article doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.2492
Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration and Greenhouse Gas Emission with Conservation Agriculture under Subtropical India: Potential and Limitations: An overview
R.K. Naresha, Ashish Dwivedia, Mukesh Kumarb, Vineet Kumarc, R.S. Rathored, Saurabh Tyagia, Onkar Singhc, Vineet Singha, Nitin Kumare, Bhanu Pratapf and Raj K. Guptag
aDepartment of Agronomy; bDepartment of Horticulture; cDepartment of Soil Science; eDepartment of Entomology & fDepartment of Genetics and Plant breeding
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture & Technology, Meerut-250110, U.P., India
dUttar Pradesh Council of Agricultural Research, Lucknow- U.P., India
gBorlaug Institute for South Asia (BISA), New Delhi -110 012, India
*Corresponding Author E-mail: ashishdwivedi842@gmail.com
Received: 22.01.2017 | Revised: 4.02.2017 | Accepted: 5.02.2017
ABSTRACT
Subtropical India is faced with the challenge of improving current food security on highly degraded land. At the same time, the region has to develop strategies to ensure future food security for the increasing population under worsening climate change. Conventional tillage (CT) has for many years resulted in the deterioration of soil quality through depletion of soil organic matter. In India, agriculture contributes about
17 per cent of the country’s total GHGs emission. An intensive agricultural practice during the post-green revolution era without caring for the environment has supposedly played a major role towards enhancement of the greenhouse gases. Due to increase in demand for food production the farmers have started growing more than one crop a year through repeated tillage operations using conventional agricultural practices. Increase in carbon emission is the major concern, which is well addressed in kyoto protocol. This review of literature provides an overview of the impact of conservation agriculture (CA) on soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration of the major agricultural strategies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, and improve agricultural sustainability. An overview synthesizes the much-needed state-of-knowledge on the effects of conservation agriculture practices on SOC sequestration and greenhouse gas emission identifies potential research gap, and limitations in studying SOC dynamics in rice –wheat cropping systems in subtropical India.
Key words: Carbon sequestration, Climate change, Conservation agriculture, GHG emission
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Cite this article: Naresh, R.K., Dwivedi, A., Kumar, M., Kumar, V., Rathore, R.S., Tyagi, S., Singh, O., Singh, V., Kumar, N., Pratap, B. and Gupta, R.K., Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration and Greenhouse Gas Emission with Conservation Agriculture under Subtropical India: Potential and Limitations: An overview, Int. J. Pure App. Biosci.5(1): 425-443 (2017). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.2492
