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Agriculture · Q881

Agronomy

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 881

Q881

Which gas is released from paddy fields

A.
CH4
Answer
B.
H2S
C.
CO2
D.
NH3

Answer: Option A

Solution

Answer: Option A
Solution:
Rice fields are the source of various Greenhouse gases like Carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. Whereas the production of methane in flooded paddies is in abundance.
Methane is produced as the terminal step of the anaerobic breakdown of organic matter in wetland rice soils by the presence of microorganisms.