India generates an estimated 500 million tons of crop residue annually, with rice and wheat straw constituting a significant portion. (Representational AI Generated Image) Every year ... beneficial ...

The effects of applying varying rates of biochar (BH) from wood bark, rice straw, and soybean stubble will be evaluated on soil contaminated with Pb. The under-studied groups like RSB + WBB, RSB + SSB ...

That was a crushing blow to farmers in Niigata, where Koshihikari rice is the economy’s biggest agricultural output. Image Shingo Kuwabara at a Shinnosuke rice field on his farm. “Shinnosuke ...

Image courtesy of the Bhutan Biochar Initiative. Yeshey explained that rice husk biochar, as a soil amendment innovation, helps sequester carbon by converting the carbon content in the raw materials ...

“We’re both believers in biochar as a carbon dioxide removal ... it can also work on a range of other crops, including rice, wheat, straw, sorghum, and sugarcane. It requires a heavy tractor ...

Watermelon seedlings grown using rice husk biochar. Image courtesy of the Bhutan Biochar ... in the raw materials (husk) and feedstock (straw) to char, which conserves soil moisture and nutrients.

To clarify the effects of co-application of rice-straw biochar and different chemical fertilizer doses on paddy soil properties and japonica rice production in Northeast China, a located-field ...

Small bars are standard errors. Table 1. The rate constants (k) of mass decomposition and N release for leguminous cover crop residue with or without rice straw biochar estimated by using a double ...