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Especially from an environmental point of view at this time puts great emphasis on self-assessment

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Home Category intelligence farmer 15-16 / 58 S Ing. John burner from the Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Engineering research on greenhouse gas emissions with Ing. John burner from the Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Engineering research on greenhouse gas emissions
Especially from an environmental point of view at this time puts great emphasis on self-assessment of leakage of nitrous oxide (N2O) and carbon dioxide (CO2) from the soil into the atmosphere. Substantial attention is drawn to the N2O emissions, as in the agricultural sector account for about 75% of total N2O emissions SR. Therefore, emmissions it is important to develop strategies that effectively reduce these emissions. The Department of Biometeorology and Hydrology (KBH) FZKI was in 2012 under the direction of Ing. JOHN THE TORCH, emmissions PhD., Based continuous research greenhouse gases (CO2 and N2O) from agricultural emmissions soils through direct measurement.
Namely the absence emmissions of direct measurements emmissions in Slovakia. However, merely establishing preceded by a long way, which consisted of the need to equip the laboratory instrumentation necessary infrastructure and experience the measurement of greenhouse gas emissions from soil using a closed chamber method. Percentage KBH and the Department of Landscape Engineering in EU project with partner organizations (IH SAS, Zvolen) enabled comprehensively equipped emmissions laboratory instrumentation infrastructure for the analysis of gaseous samples taken in the field. Experience with direct measurement of emissions we gained at the research center in Switzerland by offering positions in the research project team MICOS, where I worked for six months, with the financial backing through the Swiss-Slovak project. Experience and physical support led to the establishment themselves field and laboratory experiments.
Our activities focus on measures to reduce emissions of N2O and CO2. These are two research themes emmissions - research into the impact of different cultivation methods and the impact of the application of biochar to soil. The first was carried out from 2012 on an experimental basis Department of Crop Production FAPZ the Malanta. The main objective of this experiment is Field research on the impact of two cultivation systems (conventional and reduced) combined with different intensities of industrial nitrogen fertilizer on N2O, CO2, and harvest field crops. New research in general, emmissions has shown that the working can be reduced by reduction of N2O emissions emmissions in the range of 13-43% over conventional machining. The above results emmissions database allows you to determine the potential for reducing emissions of CO2 and N2O at different ways of working and different doses of nitrogen without negative impacts on crops. It also allows the identification of key environmental factors (extent of their impact) affecting these emissions while providing a unique database used for validation of mathematical models simulating emissions. The results of the modeling can be applied to regional or. national scale. The second area of concern is the already mentioned research into the impact of application of biochar as one of the other possible means to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (N2O and CO2) from the soil. Biochar is a solid carbonaceous material obtained by thermal degradation of biomass in the absence of oxygen. Attention is drawn to quantify the potential of biochar for carbon sequestration in soils and potential for reducing N2O emissions. Recently, we conducted a laboratory experiment whose main objective was to study the effect of biochar on soil physical properties and greenhouse gas emissions emmissions (N2O and CO2) from the soil. In particular, the influence of the application of different doses of biochar (two species) to a grain size of two diametrically different types of soil (light and very heavy soil) in combination with different doses of nitrogen fertilizer industry for N2O, CO2, and the most comprehensive feature hydrophysical soil - retention curve. Were also observed emmissions other agrochemical soil properties (pH, Cox, mineral nitrogen). The results showed the accuracy of our goals and objectives. Also constitute an important basis for the establishment of the experiment under field conditions on an experimental basis at SPU Malanta. Its aim is not only to research the impact of the application of biochar on greenhouse emmissions gas emissions, but it is a long-term comprehensive research examining the quality of soil, water regime and harvest, not excluding its quality.
Such a comprehensive research probably is not possible without mutual cooperation of other departments and SPU doctoral students. Plugged into it the Department of Soil Science FAPZ (doc. V. Šimanský) and the Department of Sustainable Agriculture and Herbology FAPZ (prof. M. Lacko-Bartošová). Carrying out research both of these research topics are supported from domestic grant VEGA and VEGA. In addition to material and financial security is important to ensure the implementation of research personnel. This is particularly the significant support of the management emmissions department (doc. D. Igaz), emmissions teaching staff (especially Ing. E. Kondrlová), as well as technical staff (Ing. T. Borza). In research emmissions are actively involved

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