Sustainable Carbon Management Practices (CMP) : : A Way Forward in Reducing CO2 Flux / / writen by Biswabara Sahu, Snigdha Chatterjee and Ruby Patel.

• VerfasserIn: Sahu, Biswabara,; Chatterjee, Snigdha,; Patel, Ruby,
• TeilnehmendeR: Chatterjee, Snigdha,; Patel, Ruby,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : IntechOpen,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (281 pages)

Asian agriculture sector contributes about 44% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission. Predominantly paddy rice cultivation couples with indiscriminate use of agrochemicals, burning of fossil fuels in farm machinery majorly causes GHG emissions from farmlands in Asia. Presently, Asian soils have 25% cropland soil organic carbon (SOC) content but with moderately to highly vulnerability towards land degradation. To make up the soil carbon losses which has occurred due to continuous cultivation and tillage, it is recommended to adopt suitable carbon management practices to sequester carbon in soil through their physio-chemical protection. Conservation agriculture (CA), cover crop, crop diversification, integrated nutrient management (INM) and balanced fertilisation promotes better soil structure formation, stabilisation of aggregate associated carbon, microbial polymerisation of organic matter as well as a better root architecture. Carbon management practices not only improve soil fertility but also supports improved grain and straw yield. More the yield more biomass addition occurs to the soil. Soil carbon sequestration may not be the only panacea of climate change related issues, but is certainly a way forward to enriched soil fertility, improved agronomic production as well as adaptive- mitigation for offsetting anthropogenic GHG emission.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Scene of Asian agriculture in GHG emission and carbon storage potential -- 3. Understanding role of SOC and carbon management practices -- 4. Carbon management practices (CMP) -- 4.1 Conservation Agriculture (CA) -- 4.1.1 Mechanism of soil carbon sequestration in CA system -- 4.1.1.1 Aggregate formation and stabilisation -- 4.1.1.2 Microbial population and diversity -- 4.2 Cover crop -- 4.3 Crop diversification or rotation -- 4.4 Integrated and balanced nutrient management -- 5. Conclusion -- References.