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Wetland rice cultivation contributes significantly to global warming potential (GWP), an effect which is largely attributed to emissions of methane (CH 4 ). Emerging technologies for wetland rice production such as conservation agriculture (CA) may mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but the effects are not well defined. Investigations were carried out in an irrigated rice (Boro rice) field in the fifth crop after conversion of conventional tillage (CT) to strip tillage (ST). Two crop residue levels (low  versus  high, LR  versus  HR) and three nitrogen (N) application rates (N1 = 108, N2 = 144, and N3 = 180 kg N ha −1 ) were laid out in a split-plot experiment with three replicates. Yield-scaled GHG emissions and GWP were estimated to evaluate the impacts of CA on mitigating CH 4  and N 2 O emissions in the rice paddy field. There was a 55% higher N 2 O emission in ST with HR coupled with N3 than that in CT with LR coupled with N1. The N 2 O emission factors ranged from 0.43 to 0.75% in ST and 0.45 to 0.59% in CT, irrespective of the residue level and N rate. By contrast, CH 4  emissions were significantly lower in CA than in the conventional practices (CT plus LR). The ST with LR in N2 reduced the GWP by 39% over the GWP in CT with HR in N1 and 16% over the conventional practices. Based on our investigation of the combination of tillage, residue, and N rate treatments, the adoption of CA with high and low residue levels reduced the GWP by 10 and 16%, respectively, because of lower CH 4  and N 2 O emissions than the current management practices. The relatively high N 2 O emission factors suggest that mitigation of this GHG in wetland rice systems needs greater attention.

Conservation Agriculture With Optimum Fertilizer Nitrogen Rate Reduces GWP for Rice Cultivation in Floodplain Soils