Carbon Farming in the Kaliningrad Region

Research Article

Austin J Nutr Metab. 2023; 10(1): 1127.

Carbon Farming in the Kaliningrad Region

Krasnoperov AG*; Zarudnyy VA*; Chernitsyna VE; Pyatakov MA

Kaliningrad Research Institute of Agriculture, A Branch of the Federal Scientific Center for Forage Production and Agroecology, Russia

*Corresponding author: Krasnoperov AGKaliningrad Research Institute of Agriculture, Branch of the V.R. Williams Federal Research Institute for Fodder Production and Agroecology, Kaliningrad Region, Polessky District, Slavyanskoye Village 9, Russia. Email: kaliningradniish@yandex.ru

Received: February 03, 2023 Accepted: March 25, 2023 Published: April 01, 2023

Abstract

Carbon farming in the Kaliningrad region is based on the following principles:

- Multi-field crop rotations with saturation of annual and perennial legumes and cereals;

- Minimizing the use of mineral fertilizers and pesticides using biological preparations based on rhizosphere nitrogen-fixing microorganisms of complex action;

- Use in crop rotations of mixed legume-grass crops of different species composition and different sowing dates as predecessors and green manure for the main crops;

- Mixed legume-cereal crops of different species composition can perform a protective function for subsequent main crops in the crop rotation against pathogenic microorganisms and invertebrate pests;

- Mixed legume-cereal crops of summer sowing are the most economically and ecologically justified and suppliers of leguminous fodder and green fodder balanced in terms of zootechnical indicators in the late autumn period;

- Mixed legume-cereal crops are considered as biological ameliorants and the main sources of stable humus;

Keywords: Carbon farming; Multi-field crop rotations; Legume-grass crops; Mixed crops; Humus balance; Biological melioration

Introduction

Initiatives to introduce a price on carbon - in the form of a carbon tax or an emissions trading system - are becoming more widespread in the world, today there are already about 60 of them [1]. In this regard, the initiative of the French government, called "Four ppm" (Initiative "4 per 1000" (4 ‰\u003d 4/1000\u003d 0.4%\u003d 0.004) announced at an international conference held in France from June 17 to 20, 2019 is significant years in the city of Poitiers), found a positive response from politicians in leading countries. The idea is to achieve an ambitious goal: to increase carbon levels in plowed soils around the world by four ppm annually (Figure 1).