© 2020 E-mail: biotcapublicatons@gmail.com Journal Home: www.biotcainternatonal.com Carbon Farming: Need of Future Shivani Kumari 1* , Lanunola Tzudir 1 and Meshram M. R. 2 1 Dept. of Agronomy, SASRD, Nagaland University, Agri Colony, Medziphema, Nagaland (797 106), India 2 Dept. of Agronomy, Naini Agricultural Institute, SHUATS, Naini, Prayagraj (Former Allahabad), Uttar Pradesh (211 007), India Shivani Kumari e-mail: imshivani96@gmail.com Atmosphere, Carbon dioxide, Climate change, Emission How to cite this article? Kumari et al., 2020. Carbon Farming: Need of Future. Biotica Research Today 2(12): 1280-1282. Corresponding Author Keywords Open Access [ [ Abstract Artcle: RT0453 Biotica Research Today C oncern over climate change has brought the concept of carbon farming into the limelight and 25 countries pledged to pursue it during the Paris climate change or COP 21 agreement with the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCC) in December 2015, dealing with greenhouse gas emissions, mitgaton and adaptaton. The main aim of carbon farming is to apprehend the unwanted carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from the atmosphere which is accountable for global warming and if carbon farming is combined with greater reducton in fossil fuels emission then it can help us in bringing back from the brink of disaster and return our atmosphere to the “magic number” of 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide. 2020 Popular Article Article History Received in 21 st December 2020 Received in revised form 22 nd December 2020 Accepted in fnal form 23 rd December 2020 Introducton “The Carbon Farming Soluton is a beftng tribute to the 2015, Internatonal Year of Soils.” - Dr. Ratan Lal C arbon is one the structural element which is required for the growth and development of plants. Carbon farming or carbon sequestration is set of farming methods which helps to store carbon inside the soil and in crop biomass by reducing the release of green house gases into the atmosphere. It is an emerging and complex economic sector. Carbon farming involves implementng practces that are known to improve the rate at which CO 2 is removed from the atmosphere and converted to the plant material or soil organic mater (SOM). Sequestratng profound quantty of carbon can help in returning a livable climate to the world (Becker and Lawrence, 2014). Use of machineries for various agricultural operations such as tilling the land, sowing, harvestng, threshing, fossil fuel based fertlizer, herbicides, pestcides overgrazing of results in signifcant emission of carbon dioxide. Agricultural actvites contribute 14% of Global Green House Gases (GHG) emissions. In India 28% of the natonal GHG emissions is from agriculture sector. Agriculture sector, which is one of the most important sector has ability to transform net emiter of CO 2 to a net capturer of CO 2 . India is the third largest emiter of greenhouse gases in the world. A recent study indicates that greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector in India would be 515 MtCO2e per year by 2030. Simultaneously it indicated that Indian agriculture has the potental to mitgate 85.5 Megatonne CO 2 equivalents (MtCO2e) per year without compromising food producton and nutriton. Natural and artfcial processes are involved in removing the carbon from earth’s atmosphere and storing them either in soil or liquid form for decades or centuries. Agriculture’s answer to combat climate change is “carbon faming” which meets the theme of sustainable agriculture while meetng the need of human beings simultaneously. Carbon farming is successful when carbon gains resultng from enhanced Vol 2:12 1280 1282 1280