Acta Agriculturae Boreali-Sinica ›› 2022, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (S1): 81-89. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.20193400

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Carbon Footprint Evaluation of Cereal-bean,Cereal-potato Rotation Modes Based on Wheat-maize Cropping System in North China Plain

ZHENG Mengjing, ZHANG Jingting, CUI Yongzeng, YAO Haipo, JIA Xiuling, LI Yan   

  1. Institute of Cereal and Oil Crops,Hebei Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Science,Key Laboratory of Crop Cultivation Physiology and Green Production of Hebei Province,Shijiazhuang 050035,China
  • Received:2022-05-25 Published:2022-12-28

Abstract:

Aiming at the problem of low economic efficiency and high carbon emission caused by long-term double cropping system of winter wheat-summer maize in North China Plain and facing to the arduous task of ensuring food security,this study was based on the winter wheat-summer maize rotation mode,and added sweet potato and soybean into the rotation system to form the cereal-potato and cereal-soybean rotation modes.In order to build a stable,efficient and ecological planting system suitable for this region,the experiment was conducted in Ningjin plot of Hebei Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences from 2019-10 to 2021-10.There were two cropping modes: winter wheat-summer maize→fallow-spring sweet potato(cereal-sweet potato mode)and winter wheat-summer maize→winter wheat-summer soybean(cereal-soybean mode).Inter-annual repetitions were carried out at the same time,namely,fallow-spring sweet potato→winter wheat-summer maize and winter wheat-summer soybean→winter wheat-summer maize.The differences of annual equivalent yield,net benefit,carbon emission and carbon footprint under different cropping rotations were analyzed.The results showed that:Compared with wheat-maize mode,the annual equivalent yield of cereal-sweet potato mode increased by 29.10%.Meanwhile,the annual equivalent yield of cereal-soybean mode decreased by 6.03%.Cereal-sweet potato and cereal-soybean modes significantly reduced the indirect emissions caused by agricultural materials production and transportation and mainly reduced carbon emissions from chemical nitrogen fertilizers and irrigation electricity.Compared with that of CK,the reduction was 40.5% and 14.9%,respectively.Compared with that of CK,cereal-sweet potato and cereal-soybean modes reduced N2O direct emissions caused by nitrogen fertilizer application by 50.0% and 32.4%,and indirect emissions caused by ammonia volatilization by 50.0% and 29.6%,respectively,and indirect emission caused by nitrogen leaching decreased by 50.0% and 26.4%,respectively.The annual total carbon emission of CK,cereal-sweet potato mode and cereal-soybean mode were 13 361.4,7 468.2,and 10 315.0 kg/ha,respectively.The annual total carbon emissions of cereal-sweet potato and cereal-soybean modes decreased by 44.1% and 22.8%,respectively,compared with that of the control mode.Compared with that of CK,the carbon footprint per unit area of cereal-sweet potato and cereal-soybean modes decreased by 44.1% and 22.8%,the carbon footprint per unit biomass decreased by 29.7% and 9.4%,respectively.In all,adding sweet potato and soybean to wheat-maize cropping system could reduce carbon footprint.Therefore,from the perspective of emission reduction,cereal-sweet potato and cereal-soybean modes can be recommended as a theoretical model to partially replace the traditional wheat-maize mode in North China Plain.

Key words: Cereal-sweet potato rotation, Cereal-soybean rotation, Carbon footprint

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ZHENG Mengjing, ZHANG Jingting, CUI Yongzeng, YAO Haipo, JIA Xiuling, LI Yan. Carbon Footprint Evaluation of Cereal-bean,Cereal-potato Rotation Modes Based on Wheat-maize Cropping System in North China Plain[J]. Acta Agriculturae Boreali-Sinica, 2022, 37(S1): 81-89. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.20193400.

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