Innovative Organic Fertilizers and Cover Crops: Perspectives for Sustainable Agriculture in the Era of Climate Change and Organic Agriculture

Agronomy, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(12), P. 2871 - 2871

Published: Dec. 1, 2024

Anthropogenic activities have resulted in land desertification various regions of the world, leading to degradation critical soil characteristics such as organic matter (OM) content, nutrient stock, and prevailing biodiversity. Restoring degraded soils through amendments diversified crop rotations is thus an intrinsic part farming. This review discusses a wide range farming impacts on health productivity by focusing fertilizers diversification. Conventional were considered vital for agricultural production harvest high yields. Nevertheless, they are now deemed environmentally hazardous obstacle sustainable agroecosystems due intensive chemical inputs that damage over time long-lasting impacts. fertilization results depletion, loss microbial diversity, reduction, deterioration physical soil. Conversely, makes use naturally existing resources improve health. Organic biochar, manure, fermented grass soil’s physical, chemical, biological properties promote growth diversity beneficial microorganisms—important cycling stability. They facilitate uptake nutrients, hinder pathogen growth, mitigate heavy metals, decompose xenobiotic substances. Moreover, growing cover crops also major strategy Diversified rotation with combinatorial may yields without any detrimental environment soil, ensuring food production, safety, security. integrated approach contributes minimizing their effects environmental It reducing along enhancing OM, biomass, nitrogen fixation, carbon sequestration. Therefore, offer climate change mitigation.

Language: Английский

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Impact of Agricultural Activities on Climate Change: A Review of Greenhouse Gas Emission Patterns in Field Crop Systems

Plants, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 13(16), P. 2285 - 2285

Published: Aug. 17, 2024

This review paper synthesizes the current understanding of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from field cropping systems. It examines key factors influencing GHG emissions, including crop type, management practices, and soil conditions. The highlights variability in across different Conventional tillage systems generally emit higher levels carbon dioxide (CO

Language: Английский

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Rosmarinus officinalis Linn.: unveiling its multifaceted nature in nutrition, diverse applications, and advanced extraction methods

Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Applied Sciences, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 3, 2024

Abstract Rosemary ( Rosmarinus officinalis Linn. or Salvia rosmarinus Spenn. ) is an aromatic herb renowned for its culinary, medicinal, and industrial significance. This review offers a multifaceted exploration of rosemary, delving into nutritional composition, traditional culinary applications, historical uses in medicine. The extends to cosmetic pharmaceutical elucidating rosemary’s role as natural preservative integration cosmeceutical formulations. Extraction methods, both classical contemporary, are critically examined, with emphasis on recent sustainable approaches their impact bioactive compounds. work concludes forward-looking perspective, discussing innovative extraction techniques, advanced technologies, the potential commercial viability rosemary-related industries. comprehensive serves valuable resource, offering insights diverse dimensions from applications cutting-edge advancements science.

Language: Английский

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Impact of chemical fertilizer and composts application on growth and yield of rice in Northeast India

Scientific Reports, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(1)

Published: March 12, 2025

Language: Английский

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Enhancing Crop Resilience to Climate Change through Biochar: A Review

International Journal of Environment and Climate Change, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(6), P. 170 - 184

Published: June 11, 2024

Crop resilience is crucial in the face of climate change, as agricultural regions unprecedented challenges such rising global temperatures, altered precipitation patterns, and increased extreme weather events. These changes impact food security, crop yields, livelihoods millions farmers worldwide. Crops threats from heat stress, changing pest disease dynamics, water scarcity, unpredictable growing seasons. involves a complex interplay genetics, environmental factors, practices. Researchers scientists are exploring innovative approaches like selective breeding, genetic modification, precision agriculture to enhance resilience. Integrating traditional knowledge indigenous farming practices into modern strategies essential for securing production, ensuring sustainability systems, conserving biodiversity, supporting community an uncertain future. central rural livelihoods, preserving ecosystems, advancing sustainable change challenges. Biochar, climate-resilient amendment, gaining attention its role enhancing mitigating change. Its porous structure high carbon content sequester dioxide, improve soil health, reduce nutrient leaching. Biochar's nature fosters rich microbial community, aids cycling, rehabilitating degraded soils. It also reduces synthetic fertilizer requirements pollution. Climate significantly impacts agriculture, disrupting growth patterns threatening security. High temperatures cause while droughts floods desiccation, impairing yields. Increased plant diseases pests spread, higher CO2 levels stimulate photosynthesis but nutrients. Rising disrupt vegetative reproductive phases, pollination, seed formation, compromising quality market value. Biochar material formed through pyrolysis, process where organic biomass decomposed under limited oxygen conditions. primarily carbon-rich contains hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, minerals. As biochar stable sink with 70-90%. allows it efficiently adsorb retain water, nutrients, compounds. large surface area facilitates interactions microbes ions, CEC helps retention fertility.

Language: Английский

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Recycling Agricultural Waste to Enhance Sustainable Greenhouse Agriculture: Analyzing the Cost-Effectiveness and Agronomic Benefits of Bokashi and Biochar Byproducts as Soil Amendments in Citrus Nursery Production

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 16(14), P. 6070 - 6070

Published: July 16, 2024

Applying bokashi (Bok) at 10% volume/volume (v/v), biochar (BC) v/v, and their combination (Bok_BC) as soil amendments significantly enhances citrus nursery production, improving plant growth health, alongside offering notable economic benefits. Our greenhouse experiment evaluated these treatments across two fertilizer doses, half (700 μS/cm) full (1400 electrical conductivity (EC) levels, compared to a control mix, demonstrating improved nutrient availability, water retention, rates, potential for carbon sequestration. Based on the results of this experiment, cost–benefit analysis was performed; BC treatment yielded substantial savings, particularly in large nurseries where 700 μS/cm saved USD 1356.38 per day same 1400 EC 1857.53. These savings stem from increased contents (N, P, K) reducing irrigation; shortened cycles due enhanced rates were observed, indirectly suggesting reduced electricity costs operations. Additionally, content within points toward long-term benefits sequestration, further contributing sustainability viability practices. findings highlight advantage incorporating Bok into mixes, providing cost-effective strategy enhancing agriculture sustainability.

Language: Английский

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Do endocrine disrupting compounds impact earthworms? A comprehensive evidence review

Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 23(3), P. 633 - 677

Published: Aug. 24, 2024

Abstract Endocrine-disrupting compounds (EDCs) are ubiquitous in soil, posing serious risks to soil biota, especially earthworms, which have been found be affected by these compounds, despite not being their typical target organisms. Earthworms essential for sustaining health and quality, promoting aeration, organic matter decomposition nutrient cycling, among other functions. This review synthesizes available literature evidencing the negative impact of EDC exposure, through traditional endocrine pathways toxicological mechanisms, on histopathological, biochemical, molecular reproductive endpoints earthworms. The described, consulted literature, induce genotoxicity alterations include antibiotics, antimicrobial additives, flame retardants, fragrances, fungicides, herbicides, hormones, inorganic ions, insecticides, UV filters, parabens, perfluoroalkyl substances, pesticides, petroleum derivatives, plasticizers polychlorinated biphenyls. These reach direct application or via contaminated amendments water derived from potentially polluted sources. findings gather present highlight vulnerability earthworms a broad spectrum chemicals with disrupting capacity. Additionally, studies emphasize physiological disruptions caused underscoring critical need protect biodiversity, including ensure quality ecosystem sustainability. Ongoing research has provided insights into mechanisms responsive EDCs identification putative hormone receptors that exhibit functional similarity those vertebrates. In conclusion, this emphasizes non-hormonal mediated pathways, addresses strong regulatory frameworks mitigate detrimental effects invertebrates order safeguard ecosystems. Graphical abstract

Language: Английский

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Soil Conservation Approaches, Tools, and Techniques

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

Language: Английский

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Positive sweet corn response with selected climate‐smart agricultural practices

Agrosystems Geosciences & Environment, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 7(4)

Published: Dec. 1, 2024

Abstract To sustain agriculture for future generations and reduce the adverse impacts on soil health environment, there is a need to adopt sustainable climate‐smart agricultural practices. A field experiment was conducted study effects of organic amendments (chicken dairy manures biochar) physicochemical properties, sweet corn ( Zea mays ) growth, yield parameters at Prairie View A&M University, Texas. Two rates biochar (2.5 5 t ha −1 two types manure dairy) applied three (0, 224, 448 kg total N were used in factorial design with replications. Plant height, period each vegetative growth stage, leaf plant analysis development, time reach 50% tasseling silking cob length, diameter, sugar content, biomass measured. The results showed that significantly affected by rate, while diameter rates. Sweet reached stages earlier chicken manure‐treated plots than plots. However, content both Furthermore, revealed strong positive correlation between height biomass; however, negative days. Soil phosphorus, nitrogen, potassium had relatively parameters. Findings different influenced nutrient status, highlighting importance adopting practices improved crop health.

Language: Английский

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Probing the toxicity of hydrothermal carbonised wastes on soil biota: Effect of reaction temperature and feedstock

Chemosphere, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 369, P. 143857 - 143857

Published: Dec. 1, 2024

Hydrothermal carbonised wastes (hydrochars) can have toxic effects on soil biota, but factors influencing toxin formation in hydrochar and subsequent toxicity to organisms not been elucidated. This study investigated the of hydrochars with a focus earthworm (Eisenia fetida) avoidance, microbial metabolic quotient (qCO

Language: Английский

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