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Quantifying the effect of biochar amendment on soil quality and crop productivity in Chinese rice paddies
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China needs to produce about 20% more rice by 2030 to meet the growing demand for food that will result from population growth and economic development. This is not an easy task with soil quality being one of the major limiting factors. Improving the recycling of organic manures can be an important step toward stabilizing and optimizing soil quality in crop production systems. Recently, the pyrolysis conversion of crop straw into biochar and using it as a soil amendment has begun to attract increasing attention in China. Here, we performed a comprehensive analysis of 6 published studies with 11 field experiments to quantify the biochar amendment effect on soil quality and crop productivity in Chinese rice paddies. Our analysis showed that short-term application of biochar amendment had a positive effect on soil quality in rice paddies across a wide range of climates and soil types in China. However, the average effect of biochar amendment on rice yield was neutral. In contrast to biochar amendment, N fertilizer was less effective for improving soil quality but more effective for increasing rice yield. More interestingly, we found that biochar amendment had a positive effect on rice yield under N fertilizer application conditions, and there was a tight relationship between the effect of biochar amendment on rice yield and that on agronomic N use efficiency. The results lead us to conclude that further investigations are needed to determine (1) the long-term effect of biochar amendment on rice productivity, (2) the effect of biochar amendment on N uptake and metabolism in rice, and (3) the effect of biochar amendments produced from different feedstock and under different process conditions on soil quality and rice productivity in Chinese paddies.
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“In contrast to biochar amendment, N fertilizer proved less effective for improving soil quality, but more effective for increasing the rice yield (Huang et al., 2013).”
From A review on biochar modulated soil condition improvements and nutrient dynamics concerning crop yields: Pathways to climate change mitigation and global food security (2019) · cites this paper as Huang et al., 2013
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“More interestingly, the same study further hinted that biochar amendment showed an additional benefit on rice yield under N fertilizer application, and there was a close relationship between the effect of biochar amendment on rice yield and agronomic N use efficiency.”
From A review on biochar modulated soil condition improvements and nutrient dynamics concerning crop yields: Pathways to climate change mitigation and global food security (2019) · cites this paper as Huang et al., 2013
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Metadata
- Authors
- Huang, M., Yang, L., Qin, H., Jiang, L., & Zou, Y.
- Affiliations
- Guangxi University (CN)
- Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Science (CN)
- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Jiang, Ligeng
- Zou, Yingbin
- Venue
- Field Crops Research
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-12
- Volume
- 154
- Pages
- 172-177
- ISSN
- 0378-4290 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2064383842
- Cited by
- 107
- References
- 43
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 11 · 2014: 5
- FWCI
- 9.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Field Crops Research (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Earmarked Fund for Modern Agro-Industry Technology of China (CARS-01-34)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Agricultural Science and Fertilization
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement
- Keywords
- biochar amendment, paddy fields, soil quality, rice yield, nitrogen fertilization, nitrogen agronomic efficiency
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