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Agricultural Practices in GHG Mitigation

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B: Energy and Environment".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 3730

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Eszter Toth

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Institute of Soil Sciences, Centre for Agricultural Research, Herman O. St. 15, 1022 Budapest, Hungary
Interests: soil CO2 and N2O emission; tillage; fertilization
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Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to invite you to send a manuscript to a Special Issue of the journal Energies entitled “Agricultural Practices in GHG Mitigation”.

Agricultural practices used in a crop production system can highly influence soil physical, chemical, and biological properties. Different tillage methods and the rate and type of the applied soil amendment materials (fertilizers, biochar, etc.) or pesticides have an effect on the soil, water, and heat regime, soil carbon content, and soil microbial community. Anthropogenic activity and its influence on soil surface are an important but uncertain component in GHG circulation processes and are in the spotlight from a scientific standpoint regarding climate change. Agriculture is one of the main sources of GHGs, and despite the huge amount of research, there are still uncertainties around GHG mitigation possibilities. Thus, there is a growing need to use “good agricultural practices” to maintain soil health on arable land, to ensure food quality and crop yields, and to mitigate GHG emission.

For this Special Issue, we welcome original research papers, short communications, and review articles.

Dr. Eszter Toth
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Tillage
  • Fertilization
  • Agricultural practices
  • GHG mitigation

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20 pages, 1805 KiB  
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Does Agricultural Mechanization Improve the Green Total Factor Productivity of China’s Planting Industry?
by Yingyu Zhu, Yan Zhang and Huilan Piao
Energies 2022, 15(3), 940; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15030940 - 27 Jan 2022
Cited by 36 | Viewed by 3239
Abstract
Agricultural mechanization is an important factor to improve the green total factor productivity of the planting industry, which is the key way to realize the sustainable development and high-quality development of agriculture. Based on the panel data of 30 provinces in China from [...] Read more.
Agricultural mechanization is an important factor to improve the green total factor productivity of the planting industry, which is the key way to realize the sustainable development and high-quality development of agriculture. Based on the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2001 to 2019, this paper uses the stochastic frontier analysis method of the output-oriented distance function to measure the green total factor productivity of China’s planting industry based on net carbon sinks, and empirically studies the impact of agricultural mechanization on the green total factor productivity in China’s planting industry. The main findings of this paper are as follows: (1) Agricultural mechanization can promote the planting green total factor productivity significantly, and this basic conclusion is still robust after using instrumental variables and sub sample regression. (2) The path of agricultural mechanization on planting green total factor productivity is mainly reflected in technology progress and spatial spillover, while the mechanisms of operation scale expansion, factor allocation optimization and technical efficiency change are not significant. (3) With the improvement in the mechanization level, the promotion effect of mechanization on planting GTFP will become clearer. Given these findings, the paper adds considerable value to the empirical literature and provides various policy and practical implications. Full article
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