Roy et al. (2025): Addition of biofertilizers with crop residue in conservation agriculture improves soil carbon sequestration: a long-term field study

Dewali Roy, A. K. Sinha, S. Rakesh, K. K. Rao, S. Sahoo, P. M. Bhattacharya, B. Mitra, P. Mukhopadhyay, Rajeev Padbhushan IN: Tropical Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42965-025-00376-x

With the growing importance of adopting biofertilizers management and crop residue addition to combat sustainability issues and carbon (C) sequestration, the present study was conducted in a 12 years long-term rice–wheat cropping system. The study aimed to evaluate the effect of tillage, crop residue, and biofertilizers on C sequestration and different sensitive C pools in the acid alluvial soil of the lower Indo-Gangetic plain of India. For comparison, 3rd and 12th cropping cycle data of eight treatment combinations [tillage (zero tillage (ZT) and conventional tillage (CT)), crop residues, and biofertilizers application] were used. Soil sampling after wheat crop harvest was done at two layers 0–5 cm and 5–20 cm.

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