Md Zahangir Hossain, Md Mezbaul Bahar, Binoy Sarkar, Scott W. Donne et al.
K. R. Islam, Ray R. Weil
Siddhartha Shankar Bhattacharyya, Gerard H. Ros, Karolina Furtak, Hafiz M.N. Iqbal et al.
Soil carbon sequestration (SCS) refers to the uptake of carbon (C) containing substances from the atmosphere and its storage in soil C pools. Soil microbial community (SMC) play a major role in C cycling and their activity has been considered as the main driver of differences in the potential to sto...
Rich Pouyat, Peter M. Groffman, Ian D. Yesilonis, L Hernandez
The transformation of landscapes from non-urban to urban land use has the potential to greatly modify soil carbon (C) pools and fluxes. For urban ecosystems, very little data exists to assess whether urbanization leads to an increase or decrease in soil C pools. We analyzed three data sets to assess...
Md Rayhan Shaheb, Ramarao Venkatesh, S. A. Shearer
Abstract Purpose Sustainable crop production could contribute to feed and fuel for the ever-increasing global population. The use of heavy agricultural machinery has improved the efficiency of farming operations and increased global food production since the 1950s. But their negative impact on soil ...
J. K. Ladha, Mark B. Peoples, P. M. Reddy, Jatish Chandra Biswas et al.
The demand for nitrogen (N) for crop production increased rapidly from the middle of the twentieth century and is predicted to at least double by 2050 to satisfy the on-going improvements in productivity of major food crops such as wheat, rice and maize that underpin the staple diet of most of the w...
Md Najmul Haque
Methane emission from the enteric fermentation of ruminant livestock is a main source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission and a major concern for global warming. Methane emission is also associated with dietary energy lose; hence, reduce feed efficiency. Due to the negative environmental impacts, metha...
Donald S. Gaydon, Balwinder Singh, Enli Wang, Perry Poulton et al.
Resource shortages, driven by climatic, institutional and social changes in many regions of Asia, combined with growing imperatives to increase food production whilst ensuring environmental sustainability, are driving research into modified agricultural practices. Well-tested cropping systems models...
M. I. Khalil, M. B. Hossain, Urs Schmidhalter
Use and management of organic waste/residues is currently an important global issue for attaining sustainability in agricultural production. However, knowledge about the decomposition characteristics and nutrient release pattern of added organic materials in subtropical soils and their interaction w...
H.S. Jat, Ashim Datta, Parbodh Chander Sharma, Virender Kumar et al.
Soil quality degradation associated with resources scarcity is the major concern for the sustainability of conventional rice-wheat system in South Asia. Replacement of conventional management practices with conservation agriculture (CA) is required to improve soil quality. A field experiment was con...
Victoria Nelissen, Biplob Kumar Saha, Greet Ruysschaert, Pascal Boeckx
The use of biochar as soil improver and climate change mitigation strategy has gained much attention, although at present the effects of biochar on soil properties and greenhouse gas emissions are not completely understood. The objective of our incubation study was to investigate biochar's effect on...
Jagadish Timsina, M.L. Jat, Kaushik Majumdar
Sukamal Sarkar, Milan Skalický, Akbar Hossain, Marián Brestič et al.
Crop residues, the byproduct of crop production, are valuable natural resources that can be managed to maximize different input use efficiencies. Crop residue management is a well-known and widely accepted practice, and is a key component of conservation agriculture. The rapid shift from conventiona...
Rajan Ghimire, Sushil Lamichhane, Bharat Sharma Acharya, Prakriti Bista et al.
Soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration is one of the major agricultural strategies to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, enhance food security, and improve agricultural sustainability. This paper synthesizes the much-needed state-of-knowledge on the effects of tillage, crop residue, and nutri...
G. V. Subbarao, Kazuhiko Nakahara, Takayuki Ishikawa, Hiroshi Ono et al.