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Oxygen production potential of trees in India


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1 ICAR-Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Regional Research Station, Pali Marwar 306 401, India
2 ICAR-National Institute of Abiotic Stress Management, Baramati 413 115, India
 

This study deals with the oxygen production potential of India taking baseline data from ISFR 2019. The Indian forests have an oxygen production potential of 7896.14 million tonnes (mt) and the annual potential was 28.04 mt yr–1 for 2019. Considering oxygen production potential of the top 10 tree species from forests and those outside forests, Shorea robusta (Sal) and Mangifera indica (Mango) ranked first, i.e. 657.87 and 214.39 mt respectively. The fast-growing agroforestry tree species exhibit a net oxygen production rate in the range of 1.03–34.15 tonnes ha–1 yr–1. Bamboo being a fast-grow­ing and higher biomass-producing species showed oxygen production of 27.38 mt yr–1. Overall this provides huge scope for establishing oxyparks in India

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Agroforestry, bamboos, oxygen production potential, oxyparks.
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Authors

A. Keerthika
ICAR-Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Regional Research Station, Pali Marwar 306 401, India
S. B. Chavan
ICAR-National Institute of Abiotic Stress Management, Baramati 413 115, India

Abstract


This study deals with the oxygen production potential of India taking baseline data from ISFR 2019. The Indian forests have an oxygen production potential of 7896.14 million tonnes (mt) and the annual potential was 28.04 mt yr–1 for 2019. Considering oxygen production potential of the top 10 tree species from forests and those outside forests, Shorea robusta (Sal) and Mangifera indica (Mango) ranked first, i.e. 657.87 and 214.39 mt respectively. The fast-growing agroforestry tree species exhibit a net oxygen production rate in the range of 1.03–34.15 tonnes ha–1 yr–1. Bamboo being a fast-grow­ing and higher biomass-producing species showed oxygen production of 27.38 mt yr–1. Overall this provides huge scope for establishing oxyparks in India

Keywords


Agroforestry, bamboos, oxygen production potential, oxyparks.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv122%2Fi7%2F850-853