Current Research in Agriculture and Farming (CRAF)
Year : 2021, Volume : 2, Issue : 2
First page : (23) Last page : (41)
Article doi: : http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2582-7146.137
Carbon Sequestration: The Great Opportunity of Challenging Task in Soil
B. Sri Sai Siddartha Naik1*, Gorantla Prathap Reddy2, Sharvan Kumar Yadav3, S.K Sharma4, Roshan Choudhary5 and Piyush Choudhary6 1Department of Agronomy, Research Scholar in Ph.D. (Ag) Agronomy, MPUAT, RCA,
Udaipur, Rajasthan, India 2Director Research, MPUAT, Udaipur 3Department of Agronomy, Research scholar in Ph.D. (Ag) Agronomy,
Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University-221005, U.P., India 4SRF in ICAR, RCA, MPUAT, Udaipur 5Assistant Professor in Agronomy, RCA, MPUAT, Udaipur 6Ph.D. Research Scholar, Department of Agronomy, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, MPUAT, Udaipur
*Corresponding Author E-mail: siddunaik08@gmail.com
Received: 5.03.2021 | Revised: 8.04.2021 | Accepted: 13.04.2021
ABSTRACT
Recently, the contributions of the soil in various ecosystems have become more prominent with the recognition of its role as a carbon sink and the potential of that in reducing the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2), which is a vital greenhouse gas, from the atmosphere. Conversely, the soil capacity to increase the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere through mineralization of organic matter is also a source of concern. Mineralization of only 10% of the soil organic carbon pool globally is believed to be equivalent to about 30 years of anthropogenic emissions. This underscores the need to preventing carbon loss (emission) from the soil resource. Globally, the soil contains a large carbon pool estimated at approximately 1500Gt of organic carbon in the first one meter of the soil profile. This is much higher than the 560 Gt of carbon (C) found in the biotic pool and twice more than atmospheric CO2. By holding this huge carbon stock, the soil is preventing carbon dioxide build up in the atmosphere which will confound the problem of climate change. There are a lot of strategies used in sequestering carbon in different soils, however, many challenges are being encountered in making them cost effective and widely acceptable.
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Cite this article: Naik, B.S.S.S., Reddy, G. P., Yadav, S. K., Sharma, S. K., Choudhary, R., & Choudhary, P. (2021). Carbon sequestration: The Great Opportunity of Challenging Task in Soil, Curr. Rese. Agri. Far.2(2), 23-41. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2582-7146.137
