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Rice management interventions to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions: a review

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Global warming is one of the gravest threats to crop production and environmental sustainability. Rice, the staple food of more than half of the world’s population, is the most prominent cause of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in agriculture and gives way to global warming. The increasing demand for rice in the future has deployed tremendous concerns to reduce GHG emissions for minimizing the negative environmental impacts of rice cultivation. In this review, we presented a contemporary synthesis of existing data on how crop management practices influence emissions of GHGs in rice fields. We realized that modifications in traditional crop management regimes possess a huge potential to overcome GHG emissions. We examined and evaluated the different possible options and found that modifying tillage permutations and irrigation patterns, managing organic and fertilizer inputs, selecting suitable cultivar, and cropping regime can mitigate GHG emissions. Previously, many authors have discussed the feasibility principle and the influence of these practices on a single gas or, in particular, in the whole agricultural sector. Nonetheless, changes in management practices may influence more than one gas at the same time by different mechanisms or sometimes their effects may be antagonistic. Therefore, in the present attempt, we estimated the overall global warming potential of each approach to consider the magnitude of its effects on all gases and provided a comprehensive assessment of suitable crop management practices for reducing GHG emissions in rice culture.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project No. 31371571); the Open Project Program of Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System, Ministry of Agriculture (Project No. 201301); the National Science & Technology Pillar Program (2013BAD20B06); and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Project No. 2013PY109).

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Hussain, S., Peng, S., Fahad, S. et al. Rice management interventions to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions: a review. Environ Sci Pollut Res 22, 3342–3360 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-014-3760-4

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