Global Climate Change and Biofuels Policy: Indian Perspectives

Prasad, Shiv; Kumar, Sandeep; Sheetal, K. R.; Venkatramanan, V.

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“…In this regard, the interventions from the perspective of circular bioeconomy involve recirculation of material flows and adoption of restoration cycle (formation of new biomass). The interventions in crop residue management are conservation agriculture (Shyamsundar et al, 2019), in-situ straw incorporation (Chivenge et al, 2019), biomass energy production (Jiang et al, 2012;Hiloidhari et al, 2014;Ngan et al, 2019), biofuel generation (Liska et al, 2014;Prasad et al, 2020), crop residue-based biorefinery (Cherubini andUlgiati, 2010), biochar production (Joseph et al, 2013;Singh and Sidhu, 2014;Windeatt et al, 2014;Singh et al, 2015;Zhou et al, 2018;Li et al, 2019), composting (Aynehband et al, 2017;Nghi et al, 2019) and mushroom production (Philippoussis, 2009;NPMCR, 2014;Lohan et al, 2018;Thuc et al, 2019).…”

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“…The lignocellulosic crop residues have huge potential to be used as feedstock for biofuel production (Prasad et al, 2020;Venkatramanan et al, 2021). The performance of microorganisms involved in the biofuel production from crop residues can be augmented by adopting metabolic engineering and synthetic biology approaches (Shah and Venkatramanan, 2019).…”

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Nexus Between Crop Residue Burning, Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development Goals Over North-Western India

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The crop residue burning in India particularly North-western India is responsible for air pollution episodes and public health concerns; greenhouse gases emissions and radiation imbalance; and declining soil organic matter and soil productivity. The objectives of this paper are to estimate the crop residue burning and emissions from crop residue burning, to recommend interventions in crop residue management and to propose a crop residue management-bioeconomy model incorporating strategies to sustainably manage the crop residues through interventions that enable waste valorization, food and nutritional security, farmers’ livelihood and sustainable agricultural production system. A national inventory on crop residue burning including the pollutant species was prepared using the IPCC methodology. The crop types included for the estimation are cereals, pulses, oilseeds, sugarcane, cotton, jute and Mesta. The total amount of crop residues generated and burned for the year 2017–18 was estimated at 516 million tonnes and 116 million tonnes respectively. It is estimated that 116.3 Tg of crop residues burning released about 176.1 Tg of CO2, 10 Tg of CO, 313.9 Gg of CH4, 8.14 Gg of N2O, 151.14 Gg of NH3, 813.8 Gg of NMVOC, 453.4 Gg of PM2.5, and 935.9 Gg of PM10. The emission estimates can be a proxy to prepare the national level inventory of air pollutant species from crop residue burning. The crop residue management (CRM) demands a transition from the traditional zone of CRM to bioeconomy zone of CRM, wherein the interventions aim at the sustainability of agroecosystem. The proposed bioeconomy model has a four-pronged strategy that includes smart agriculture practices, waste bioeconomy involving aspirational principles of bioeconomy, capacity building of stakeholders’ and proactive government policy. Sustainable agricultural bioeconomy provides ample opportunities to reduce crop residue burning, increase farmers’ livelihood and decarbonize the agricultural production. India’s efforts and policies can provide lessons for other agricultural regions having similar environmental constraints.

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“…The Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Science and Technology has provided support for the production of biofuel feedstock crops and biotechnological research in biofuel crops, respectively. Also, the National Biofuel Coordination Committee (NBCC) was formulated to provide high-level coordination of various agencies and departments and review the different aspects of biofuels such as development, promotion, as well as utilization (Prasad et al 2020).…”

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Halophytes: The Nonconventional Crops as Source of Biofuel Production

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Biofuels are gaining importance due to high crude oil prices, high energy demands, and global warming issues. According to the world energy council, the biofuel production will be tripled by 2030, with Brazil and the United States contributing to 80% of the total biofuel production. The use of first generation biofuels is connected with food insecurity and increase in food prices, while second generation biofuels used raw cellulosic mass from nonfood crops. The plant-based fuels are considered in renewable sources with easy growing practices and have lesser carbon emission as compared to fossil fuels. This

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“…Crop residue generation is increasing globally due to the increase in agricultural crop area and cropping intensity [2]. Several studies emphasize the growing importance of crop residues as a sustainable feedstock for bioenergy production [3][4][5]. Biomass is a critical component of agricultural bioeconomy and circular economy from the perspective of material flows and energy generation [6].…”

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“…Bioenergy generation is construed as a viable strategy in crop residue management on account of the factors like increasing generation of crop residues, growing need for renewable energy trajectory and decentralized power generation, and nexus between bioenergy generation and employment opportunities [5,8,19,20]. Bioenergy from crop residues is generated through technologies including but not limited to combustion, biomass gasification, pyrolysis, fermentation and anaerobic digestion [1,21].…”

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Assessment of Bioenergy Generation Potential of Agricultural Crop Residues in India

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Crop residues are sustainable feedstock for bioenergy production. The gross crop residue potential generated in India is 696.38 million tonnes/year. Cereal crops generate about 364.27 million tonnes/year of crop residues. Cereal crops (rice, wheat, sorghum, pearl millet, maize), sugarcane and horticultural crops (coconut, areca nut, banana) are found to have immense crop residue generation potential. Crop residues of 209.69 million tonnes/ year are available as surplus and can be explored for bioenergy generation. Cereals and sugarcane account for 75% of surplus crop residues. Spatial variations existing between states in terms of surplus crop residue generation are due to crop acreage and crop productivity. Uttar Pradesh generates 116.69 million tonnes/year of gross crop residues and 41.76 million tonnes/year of surplus crop residues. States like Punjab,

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Global Climate Change and Biofuels Policy: Indian Perspectives

Cited by 17 publications

References 16 publications

Nexus Between Crop Residue Burning, Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development Goals Over North-Western India

Nexus Between Crop Residue Burning, Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development Goals Over North-Western India

Halophytes: The Nonconventional Crops as Source of Biofuel Production

Assessment of Bioenergy Generation Potential of Agricultural Crop Residues in India

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