Cereal company Kellogg is spending USD 2 million to help farmers in the Lower Mississippi River Basin reduce their methane emissions through its InGrained program.
The program will train the farmers in water and management, soil health, among others and the company will pay producers USD20 per ton of greenhouse gas they reduce during a five-year period after introducing the environmentally friendly farming technologies.
Kellog estimates up to 51,000 tons of greenhouse gasses will be reduced in its rice ingredient supply chain in North America
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More on efforst to reduce the carbon footprint of rice production:
Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from irrigated rice cultivation through improved fertilizer and water management
Annually, Bangladesh consumes about 2.9 million metric tons of urea and about 60% of this is used in rice cultivation. Therefore, this could contribute to increasing atmospheric pollution due to increased CH4 and N2O emissions.
Increasing nitrogen-use efficiency by adopting urea deep placement (UDP) could reduce environmental pollution including mitigation of GHG emissions compared to conventional nitrogen management through broadcasting method or the adoption of integrated plant nutrient system. Moreover, UDP could be more effective in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions when it is combined with alternate wetting and drying irrigation
Vietnam tackles its agricultural greenhouse gas emissions
Vietnam has the highest methane emissions from paddy rice production in the Southeast Asia region. In its Nationally Determined Contribution under the Paris Agreement, the country committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 8%. In partnership with the International Rice Research Institute , Vietnam recently held a policy workshop to discuss the results of two IRRI projects.
Greenhouse gas Mitigation in Irrigated Rice Systems in Asia
The project on Greenhouse gas Mitigation in Irrigated Rice Systems in Asia (MIRSA) seeks to develop an improved water management, based on alternate wetting and drying (AWD), that can always reduce soil-derived CO2-eq emissions (CH4 + N2O) during the rice growing season from irrigated rice paddies, by 30% compared to the conventional practice.
To achieve this objective, simultaneous experimental field demonstration trials are being conducted in Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines to assess the site-specific feasibility of AWD as a mitigation option for CH4+N2O emissions from irrigated rice fields.
