Sanchita Mandal

TL;DR: Biochar application shows net soil C gains while also serving for increased plant biomass production that strongly recommends biochar as a useful soil amendment, and the application of biochar to soils emerges as a 'win-win strategy' for sustainable waste management, climate change mitigation and food security.

TL;DR: Wood vinegar was applied alone or combined with biochar (BC) to observe their efficiency on suppressing the ammonia (NH3) volatilization from rice paddy soil and it was suggested that WV needs to be applied with BC at a moderate rate to achieve optimum rice yield and mitigate NH3 volatILization.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the application of biochars can mitigate NH3 emission from calcareous agricultural cropping soil and that the retained N is plant-available and can improve wheat biomass yield.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the microbial-aging approach to produce microbially-aged hydrochar (M-SHC), which was applied in rice paddy soil columns to investigate nitrogen transformation processes and gaseous nitrogen losses by NH3 volatilization.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of applied agropesticides on soil microbiological and biochemical health attributes under different cropping systems were investigated, and it was found that some agrochemicals reduce biochemical reaction and activities of soil enzymes.