Barman et al. (2025): Long-term Agroforestry Enhances Soil Organic Carbon Pools and Deep Soil Carbon Sequestration in the Indian Himalayas

Swarnashree Barman, Ranjan Bhattacharyya, Charan Singh, A.C. Rathore, Vibha Singhal, D.R. Biswas, Nayan Ahmed, Shrila Das, Sandeep Kumar, Shankar Lal Jat, T.K. Das, Soora Naresh Kumar, Avijit Ghosh, Fazal Ullah, Hosam O. Elansary, Muhammad Nazim, Adel Fickak, Mohamed A. Rashwan, Ihab Moussa IN: Frontiers in Environmental Science, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2025.1568564

Despite agroforestry has large potential for soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration, limited information is available on SOC pools and deep SOC sequestration as affected by agroforestry systems. Potential of long-term (15 years) agroforestry systems to store SOC was assessed in the foot hills of the north western Indian Himalayas. The study was carried out during 2009 to 2023 and soil samples were taken from four depths, viz. 0-15, 15-30, 30-45, 45-60 cm in Bhimal (Grewia optiva L.) and Mulberry (Morus alba L.) based agroforestry system under cowpea-toria based cropping systems and turmeric as ground storey crop.

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