Conservation agriculture for regenerating soil health and climate change mitigation in smallholder systems of South Asia

ML Jat, MK Gathala, M Choudhary, S Sharma… - Advances in …, 2023 - oar.icrisat.org
The increase in agriculture production to meet the food demand of growing human
population from a limited availability of arable land with low environmental footprints and …

Potentials and barriers to land-based mitigation technologies and practices (LMTs)—a review

L Karki, J Lieu, M Xylia, M Laub… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Land-based mitigation technologies and practices (LMTs) are critical for achieving the Paris
Agreement's aim of avoiding dangerous climate change by limiting the rise in average …

X-ray micro-computed tomography characterized soil pore network as influenced by long-term application of manure and fertilizer

N Singh, S Kumar, RP Udawatta, SH Anderson… - Geoderma, 2021 - Elsevier
Manure is used to enhance soil organic matter content, aggregation, and hence porosity.
However, knowledge of long-term application of cattle manure and fertilizer impacts on soil …

Changes in soil aggregate-associated organic carbon, enzymatic activity, and biological pools under conservation agriculture based practices in rice–wheat system

S Sharma, BB Vashisht, P Singh, Y Singh - Biomass Conversion and …, 2022 - Springer
Crop residue burning or removal from fields has detrimental impacts on crop productivity
and soil quality due to decreased carbon (C) sustainability under intensive rice–wheat …

Effects of tillage and mulch on soil evaporation in a dry seeded rice-wheat cropping system

E Humphreys, PL Eberbach, SS Kukal - Soil and Tillage Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Soil evaporation (Es) is a non-productive loss of water during crop production and can
account for a substantial fraction of total water loss. While there have been many field …

[HTML][HTML] Did cover crop or animal manure ameliorate corn residue removal effects on soil mechanical properties after 10 years?

HW Klopp, H Blanco-Canqui, M Sindelar, VL Jin… - Journal of Agriculture …, 2023 - Elsevier
Crop residue removal may negatively affect soil mechanical properties, which are key
components of soil quality. To evaluate potential long-term effects, we assessed the 10-yr …

[HTML][HTML] Sustainability approach in cropping intensity (CI) 400 through optimizing the dosage of compost and chemical fertilizers to early-maturing rice varieties based …

Y Musa, M Farid, N Nasaruddin, MF Anshori… - Journal of Agriculture …, 2023 - Elsevier
The development of early maturing rice varieties in the cropping intensity 400 program is
one of the alternatives in overcoming the challenges of rice production against land …

Surface seeding of wheat: A sustainable way towards climate resilience agriculture

SK Singh, A Patra, R Chand, HS Jatav, Y Luo… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Conventional tillage (CT)-based agriculture is known to be ecologically indiscreet,
economically and environmentally unsustainable, and leads to the degradation of soil and …

Hydro‐physical soil properties as influenced by short and long‐term integrated crop–livestock agroecosystems

JK Dhaliwal, S Kumar - Soil Science Society of America …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Integration of cover crops and livestock (ICLS) in an existing corn (Zea mays L.)–soybean
[Glycine max (L.) Merr.] cropping system can be an effective strategy to improve soil physical …

Soil aggregates associated carbon and enzyme activities under long-term nitrogen and rice straw incorporation in Rice-Wheat system

P Ramteke, BB Vashisht - … in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Intensive tillage and burning or removal of crop residues have led to a decline in soil organic
carbon (SOC) content, posing a significant threat to soil quality and global food production …