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Use of Biochar for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation


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1 Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubneswar (Odisha), India
2 Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubneswar (Odisha), India
3 Department of Agricultural Economics, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubneswar (Odisha), India
     

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Climate change is threatening food security globally. Countries like India are more vulnerable in view of the tropical monsoon climate and poor coping capacity of the small and marginal farmers. Several agricultural practices like indiscriminate use of agro-chemicals and crop residue burning contribute to emission of greenhouse gases leading to warming of the atmosphere. Sequestration of carbon both in the vegetation and soil is the most effective means of mitigating GHG emissions. There are several strategies of soil carbon sequestration which can be adopted at farm level. One of the recent developments is the conversion of crop residue biomass into biochar and using the char as a soil amendment rather than directly using the crop residues.


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Tapas Ranjan Sahoo
Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubneswar (Odisha), India
Debadatta Sethi
Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubneswar (Odisha), India
Upasana Mohapatra
Department of Agricultural Economics, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubneswar (Odisha), India

Abstract


Climate change is threatening food security globally. Countries like India are more vulnerable in view of the tropical monsoon climate and poor coping capacity of the small and marginal farmers. Several agricultural practices like indiscriminate use of agro-chemicals and crop residue burning contribute to emission of greenhouse gases leading to warming of the atmosphere. Sequestration of carbon both in the vegetation and soil is the most effective means of mitigating GHG emissions. There are several strategies of soil carbon sequestration which can be adopted at farm level. One of the recent developments is the conversion of crop residue biomass into biochar and using the char as a soil amendment rather than directly using the crop residues.