Professor Jayashankar State Agricultural Universitys (PJTSAU) recent study on dangerous emissions from paddy cultivation says that CO2 equivalent to paddy fields from Telangana is only 2.5 lakh tonnes but not in crore tonnes.
The university also said that rice cultivation has its own benefits like increasing the organic carbon in the Soil.
Through Photosynthesis, the rice plant also absorbs CO2 from the Environment. The degradation of Biomass adds organic carbon to the soil. Algal blooms in rice fields also collect a certain amount of carbon dioxide in the Atmosphere.
The recent Inter-governmental Panel on Climate-change”>Climate Change (IPCC) also made these remarks, and unlike many advanced countries, India and especially Telangana are performing considerably better in this regard.