Pasture To Sugar Cane: Carbon In Soil Rebound Only Takes A Few Years Of Cultivation
Thursday, July 3, 2014 - 19:10
in Earth & Climate
The reduction of soil carbon stock caused by the conversion of pasture areas into sugarcane plantations is very common change in Brazil in recent years but those worried about the impact on CO2 can rest easy. It can be offset within two or three years of cultivation. The calculation by researchers at the Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA) of the University of São Paulo (USP) in collaboration with colleagues from the Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (Esalq), also at USP, concluded, "Soil carbon stocks on land-use change process to sugarcane production in South-Central Brazil." read more
