Decreasing the carbon footprint of an intensive rice-based cropping system using conservation agriculture on the Eastern Gangetic Plains

MK Alam, RW Bell, WK Biswas - Journal of cleaner production, 2019 - Elsevier
Emerging conservation agriculture (CA) technologies are being applied in rice-upland
cropping systems and their potential to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions of the whole rice …

Increases in soil sequestered carbon under conservation agriculture cropping decrease the estimated greenhouse gas emissions of wetland rice using life cycle …

MK Alam, RW Bell, WK Biswas - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019 - Elsevier
Wetland rainfed rice (Oryza sativa L.), which covers 60 million hectares in South Asia,
contributes significantly to agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Mitigation …

Conservation agriculture practice influences soil organic carbon pools in intensive rice‐based systems of the Eastern Indo‐Gangetic Plain

MA Islam, RW Bell, C Johansen… - Soil Use and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Studies of rice‐based systems in the Indo‐Gangetic Plain (IGP) have demonstrated the
beneficial effects of Conservation Agriculture on soil organic carbon (SOC) status, along with …

Greenhouse gas implications of novel and conventional rice production technologies in the Eastern-Gangetic plains

MK Alam, WK Biswas, RW Bell - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2016 - Elsevier
Wetland rice (Oryza sativa L.) production contributes 55% of agricultural greenhouse gas
(GHG) emissions in the world. Hence any new technology with the potential to reduce the …

Quantifying changes to the global warming potential of rice wheat systems with the adoption of conservation agriculture in northwestern India

A Tirol-Padre, M Rai, V Kumar, M Gathala… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2016 - Elsevier
Field trials were conducted in Haryana representing the northwestern Indo-Gangetic Plains
(IGP) to assess the changes brought about by management, including conservation …

Conservation agriculture effects on soil organic carbon accumulation and crop productivity under a rice–wheat cropping system in the western Indo-Gangetic Plains

R Bhattacharyya, TK Das, S Sudhishri, B Dudwal… - European Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Retention of carbon (C) in arable soils has been considered as a potential mechanism to
mitigate soil degradation and to sustain crop productivity. Hence, we appraised the 3-year …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of long-term conservation agriculture and crop intensification in rice-wheat rotation of Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia: Carbon dynamics and …

SK Samal, KK Rao, SP Poonia, R Kumar… - European Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
In the context of deteriorating soil health, stagnation of yield in rice-wheat cropping system
(RWCS) across Indo-Gangetic plains (IGP) and environmental pollution, a long term field …

Conservation agriculture effects on crop and water productivity, profitability and soil organic carbon accumulation under a maize-wheat cropping system in the North …

TK Das, YS Saharawat, R Bhattacharyya… - Field Crops …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) of India is dominated with rice− wheat cropping
system that occupies almost 10.5 million ha area. The sustainability of rice-wheat system is …

[HTML][HTML] Potential of conservation agriculture modules for energy conservation and sustainability of rice-based production systems of Indo-Gangetic Plain region

R Nandan, SP Poonia, SS Singh, CP Nath… - … Science and Pollution …, 2021 - Springer
Rice-based cropping systems are the most energy-intensive production systems in South
Asia. Sustainability of the rice-based cropping systems is nowadays questioned with …

Carbon footprint and agricultural sustainability nexus in an intensively cultivated region of Indo-Gangetic Plains

DK Benbi - Science of the total environment, 2018 - Elsevier
Green Revolution led to an unprecedented increase in world food production but with a
significant carbon footprint raising concerns about its sustainability. With the rising global …