Long-term fertilization effects on carbon pools and carbon management index of loamy soil under grass–forage legumes mixture in semi-arid environment
2020
Dixit, A.K. | Rai, A.K. | Prasad, Mahendra | Choudhary, Mukesh | Kumar, Sunil | Srivastava, M.K. | Rai, S.K. | Singh, H.V.
Soil organic carbon (SOC) is a key component for sustaining crop production. A field experiment was conducted during 2004–2018 to assess the changes in soil carbon fractions under different fertilization practices in grass-legumes mixture. The result indicates that application of farmyard manure (FYM) at 80 Mg ha–¹ has increased SOC concentration leading to carbon sequestration rate of 4.2 Mg ha–¹ year–¹. Further, it has increased the proportion of labile carbon in the total SOC and have accumulated 126, 60, 83 and 95% higher very labile, labile, less labile and non-labile C stock than that of control plot, respectively, in top 30 cm soil layer. Inorganic fertilization and FYM 20 Mg ha–¹ influenced SOC concentration, SOC stock and C sequestration rate similarly. The highest carbon management index (264) was found in the treatment receiving FYM 80 Mg ha–¹ and it was positively correlated with SOC (r = 0.84**). The sensitivity index of the SOC varied from 26 to 152% and the differences were greatest in FYM treatments. The result indicates that grass-legumes mixture build-up the SOC in long term and the addition of FYM further increases it.
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