Report from International Food Policy Research Institute
Report: Greenhouse gas mitigation: Issues for Indian agriculture
Publication Blurb: By some estimates, agricultural practices account for 20 percent of India’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Thus, cost-effective reductions in agricultural emissions could significantly lower India’s overall emissions. This paper explores mitigation options for three agricultural sources of GHGs—methane (CH4) emissions from irrigated rice production, nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from the use of nitrogenous fertilizers, and the release of carbon dioxide (CO2) from energy sources used to pump groundwater for irrigation. Also examined is how changes in land use would affect carbon sequestration. The authors find great opportunities for cost-effective mitigation of GHGs in Indian agriculture, but caution that the results are based on a variety of data sources, some of which are of poor quality.
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The contribution of Indian agriculture in GHGs emission and CO2 budget is still need detailed case studies. There are several problems with this report, especially data source and quality of data sets. In many parts of the country the impact of agriculture crops especially wetland cropping system is still to be investigated scientifically. GHGs emission estimation from major rice cropping belt of the country need close attention...
Apart from this, onsite burning of crop residue (a common practice in wheat and paddy fields) especially in Rajasthan and Punjab States are another issues for CO2 emission in arable lands....but no comprihensive report is available on this problem...
We need more comprehensive studies to estimate the actual GHGs emission from agriculture sector in India..
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Apart from this, onsite burning of crop residue (a common practice in wheat and paddy fields) especially in Rajasthan and Punjab States are another issues for CO2 emission in arable lands....but no comprihensive report is available on this problem...
We need more comprehensive studies to estimate the actual GHGs emission from agriculture sector in India..
Ashok