Initiating conservation agriculture shows reduced soil CO2 emissions and improved soil aggregate stability in the first season in rainfed cropping in India

Saeed Karbin; Amir Kassam; Apoorva Oza; Tinni Sawhney; Pramod Sahu; Bharat Mogare; Bhaskar Mitra; Sandeep Viswakarma; Jitendra Singh; RamKrishna Mahajan; Sunil Malviya; Pankaj Badole; Naveen Patidar

doi:10.1080/00207233.2021.1987050

Initiating conservation agriculture shows reduced soil CO2 emissions and improved soil aggregate stability in the first season in rainfed cropping in India

Saeed Karbin, Amir Kassam^* (Corresponding Author), Apoorva Oza, Tinni Sawhney, Pramod Sahu, Bharat Mogare, Bhaskar Mitra, Sandeep Viswakarma, Jitendra Singh, RamKrishna Mahajan, Sunil Malviya, Pankaj Badole, Naveen Patidar

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Aberdeen Centre For Environmental Sustainability

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The reported study was undertaken to determine which soil health indicators showed measurable signs of improvement, during the first year of the process of introducing a Conservation Agriculture (CA) cropping system in rainfed areas in Madhya Pradesh, India. Soil health indicators of soil aggregate stability, soil-atmosphere CO2 fluxes, water infiltration, soil moisture, potentially mineralisable nitrogen, soil organic content and bulk density were measured. Results demonstrate that generally, there were improvements in all measured soil health indicators in CA soils, with decrease in CO2 emissions and increase in soil aggregates being statistically significant.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	998-1014
Number of pages	17
Journal	International Journal of Environmental Studies
Volume	79
Issue number	6
Early online date	14 Oct 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00207233.2021.1987050
Publication status	Published - Dec 2022

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Acknowledgements
The authors gratefully acknowledge the opportunity provided by the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme India (AKRSP-India) and Aga Khan Foundation India (AKF-India) to undertake the work reported in the paper. Special thanks are extended to Matt Reed, CEO of AKF-India, and to AKF-Geneva, for their support and goodwill.

Funding
The study was supported by AKF-India and AKRSP-India. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis or preparation of the manuscript.

Keywords

conservation
sustainability
no-till
carbon
emission
aggregate

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Karbin, S., Kassam, A., Oza, A., Sawhney, T., Sahu, P., Mogare, B., Mitra, B., Viswakarma, S., Singh, J., Mahajan, R., Malviya, S., Badole, P., & Patidar, N. (2022). Initiating conservation agriculture shows reduced soil CO2 emissions and improved soil aggregate stability in the first season in rainfed cropping in India. International Journal of Environmental Studies, 79(6), 998-1014. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207233.2021.1987050

Initiating conservation agriculture shows reduced soil CO2 emissions and improved soil aggregate stability in the first season in rainfed cropping in India. / Karbin, Saeed; Kassam, Amir (Corresponding Author); Oza, Apoorva et al.
In: International Journal of Environmental Studies, Vol. 79, No. 6, 12.2022, p. 998-1014.

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Karbin, S, Kassam, A, Oza, A, Sawhney, T, Sahu, P, Mogare, B, Mitra, B, Viswakarma, S, Singh, J, Mahajan, R, Malviya, S, Badole, P & Patidar, N 2022, 'Initiating conservation agriculture shows reduced soil CO2 emissions and improved soil aggregate stability in the first season in rainfed cropping in India', International Journal of Environmental Studies, vol. 79, no. 6, pp. 998-1014. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207233.2021.1987050

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