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GREENHOUSE GASES: CAUSES, LOSSES AND REMEDIAL MEASURES FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE

Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 15 ISSUE 2
Written by P. S. SHEHRAWAT, Rati MUKETSHWAR

The result predicted that major causes of greenhouse gases were found ‘high use of inorganic farm inputs’ (2.88), ‘intensive tillage practices’ (2.75), ‘mechanization of farm practices’, (2.66), ‘non- adoption of diversified agriculture’ (2.52), ‘non-adoption of crop rotation; (2.46), and ‘burning of crop residue in field’ (1.95) with their respective weighted mean scores. The losses due to greenhouse gases were found ‘crop benefit ratio decreased’ (1.23), ‘crop damaged due to adverse climatic uncertainty’ (1.07), ‘crop production decreased’ (0.89), ‘sowing season change (0.86), ‘loss in bio-diversity’ (0.84), ‘less income from agriculture’ (0.81), ‘soil water holding capacity decreased’ (0.68) based on their ‘Z’ scores. Results pertaining adoption of remedial measures for sequestration of greenhouse gases for sustainable agriculture were ‘evolution of new crops cultivars’ (2.95), ‘crop diversification’ (2.90), ‘use zero tillage practices’ (2.81) ‘integrated farming system’ (2.79) ‘adapting cultivars against drought, pests, diseases, resistance’ (2.78), ‘soil/water testing for soil status’ (2.77), ‘encouraging of rice varieties that emit less CH4 (2.73), ‘campaigning for sequestration of GHGs (2.67)’, ‘growing intercrops/mixed cropping to compensate crop failure’, (2.62) and ‘management of natural resources soil, water and biodiversity’ (2.61) considered very effective remedial measures with their mean scores, respectively.

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