Evaluating the Impact of Resource Conservation Practices on Soil Carbon Sequestration in Agriculture

Abstract

Carbon sequestration is accumulating atmospheric carbon dioxide, deplete to the soil degradation, augmenting soil fertility, enhancing organic carbon and carbon stocks. Various resource conservation practices involving incorporation of organic manures, cover cropping, zero tillage, mulching, conservation tillage, fertility management, agroforestry, and crop rotation are the enhancing in carbon stocks on agricultural lands. Sequestration of carbon in soil is the importance of that potential is more significant. appropriation of zero tillage bulk density may be enlarge than conventional tillage. The soil aggregates disturbance in the surface layers and decline in the amount of total SOC, mainly due to the macroaggregates, occurs under conventionally tilled soil. The SOC response to cover cropping or diverse crop rotation was more observable in medium-textured soils than soils types. mixed cropping systems with conservation tillage sequestered 10% more SOC than conventional tilled crop-fallow systems, rises than SOC sequestration with diverse cropping or conservation tillage. Diversified crop rotation dispenses an opportunity to produce very large biomass C that impact SOC by changing the quantity and the quality of organic matter input more than under mono cropping.