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Effect of long-term cropping system on soil organic carbon pools and soil quality in western plain of hot arid India

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Title Effect of long-term cropping system on soil organic carbon pools and soil quality in western plain of hot arid India
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Creator Mohrana, P.C., Naitam, R.K., Verma, T.P., Meena, R.L., Sunil Kumar, Tailor, B.L., Singh, R.S., Singh, S.K. and Samal, S.K.
 
Subject Soil available nutrients, soil organic carbon pools, cropping system, carbon management index, aridisols
 
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Maintaining soil organic carbon (SOC) in arid ecosystem is important for soil productivity and restoration of deserted sandy soil in western plain of India. There is a need to understand how the cropping systems changes may alter SOC pools including total organic carbon (TOC), particulate organic C (POC), water soluble carbon (WSC), very labile C (VLC), labile C (LC), less labile C (LLC) and non-labile C (NLC) in arid climate. We selected seven major agricultural systems for this study viz., barren, fallow, barley–fallow, mustard–moth bean, chickpea–groundnut, wheat–green gram and wheat–pearl millet. Result revealed that conversion of sandy barren lands to agricultural systems significantly increased available nutrients and SOC pools. Among all studied cropping systems, the highest values of TOC (6.12 g kg−1), POC (1.53 g kg−1) and WSC (0.19 g kg−1) were maintained in pearl millet–wheat system, while the lowest values of carbon pools observed in fallow and barren land. Strong relationships (P < 0.05) were exhibited between VLC and LC with available nutrients. The highest carbon management index (299) indicates that wheat–pearl millet system has greater soil quality for enhancing crop productivity, nutrient availability and carbon sequestration of arid soil.
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Date 2020-12-26T06:57:34Z
2020-12-26T06:57:34Z
2017-03-08
 
Type Research Paper
 
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Language English
 
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