Rice: chemical fertiliser amendment
PartnersAuthor: D.C. Uprety Subash Dhar Dong Hongmin Bruce A. Kimball Amit Garg Jigeesha Upadhyay Emissions of GHGs are affected by the amounts and types of fertilisers applied, so judicious choice of...
View ArticleRice: electron acceptors
PartnersAuthor: D.C. Uprety Subash Dhar Dong Hongmin Bruce A. Kimball Amit Garg Jigeesha Upadhyay Addition of electron acceptors, such as ferrihydrite, to paddy fields can stimulate microbial...
View ArticleRice production technologies
PartnersAuthor: D.C. Uprety Subash Dhar Dong Hongmin Bruce A. Kimball Amit Garg Jigeesha Upadhyay Rice cultivation is responsible for 10% of GHG emissions from agriculture (Figure 1). In developing...
View ArticleNutrient management: nitrogenous fertilisers
PartnersAuthor: D.C. Uprety Subash Dhar Dong Hongmin Bruce A. Kimball Amit Garg Jigeesha Upadhyay Efficient use of nitrogenous fertilisers can reduce N2O emissions from agricultural fields. In...
View ArticleConservation tillage
PartnersAuthor: D.C. Uprety Subash Dhar Dong Hongmin Bruce A. Kimball Amit Garg Jigeesha Upadhyay Conventional tillage is the traditional method of farming in which soil is prepared for planting by...
View ArticleAgro-forestry (mitigation)
PartnersAuthor: D.C. Uprety Subash Dhar Dong Hongmin Bruce A. Kimball Amit Garg Jigeesha Upadhyay Agro-forestry, as defined by the World Agro-forestry Centre, is “a dynamic, ecologically based,...
View ArticleCrop varieties with enhanced carbon sequestration
PartnersAuthor: D.C. Uprety Subash Dhar Dong Hongmin Bruce A. Kimball Amit Garg Jigeesha Upadhyay This biological approach uses traditional plant breeding and newer biotechnological methods to select...
View ArticleCover crop technology
PartnersAuthor: D.C. Uprety Subash Dhar Dong Hongmin Bruce A. Kimball Amit Garg Jigeesha Upadhyay Cover crops are fast growing crops such as winter rye and clovers that are planted between periods of...
View ArticleCovering manure storage facilities
PartnersAuthor: D.C. Uprety Subash Dhar Dong Hongmin Bruce A. Kimball Amit Garg Jigeesha Upadhyay Manure coverage is the practice of covering the surface of manure with materials of certain thickness...
View ArticleBiocovers of landfills
PartnersAuthor: D.C. Uprety Subash Dhar Dong Hongmin Bruce A. Kimball Amit Garg Jigeesha Upadhyay An inexpensive way to reduce greenhouse-active methane emissions from existing Municipal Solid Waste...
View ArticleHousehold biogas digesters
PartnersAuthor: D.C. Uprety Subash Dhar Dong Hongmin Bruce A. Kimball Amit Garg Jigeesha Upadhyay Biogas is a flammable gas produced by organic materials after it has been decomposed and fermented by...
View ArticleOff-field crop residue management
PartnersAuthor: D.C. Uprety Subash Dhar Dong Hongmin Bruce A. Kimball Amit Garg Jigeesha Upadhyay Crop-residue management is an important mitigation technology using biomass, vermi-compost etc....
View ArticleAdvanced Bio-hydrocarbon Fuels
PartnersAuthor: Asian Institute of Technology Advanced bio-hydrocarbons are second generation biofuels and are derived from lignocellulosic biomass such as trees, grasses, waste, agricultural or...
View ArticleBiomethane CNG hybrid fuel
PartnersAuthor: Asian Institute of Technology Transport sector is one of the major oil consuming sectors; it consumes 51% of the final oil consumption (International Energy Agency, 2010). There is a...
View ArticleCellulosic ethanol
PartnersAuthor: Asian Institute of Technology Cellulosic ethanol is an alcohol produced from the feedstock available in wide variety of plant materials and agricultural residues. Although chemically...
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