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Influence of Diet on Methane and Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Cattle Manure

  • Nampoothiri, Vinu M. (Dairy Cattle Nutrition Division, National Dairy Research Institute) ;
  • Mohini, Madhu (Dairy Cattle Nutrition Division, National Dairy Research Institute) ;
  • Thakur, S.S. (Dairy Cattle Nutrition Division, National Dairy Research Institute) ;
  • Mondal, Goutham (Dairy Cattle Nutrition Division, National Dairy Research Institute)
  • Received : 2015.05.28
  • Accepted : 2015.08.14
  • Published : 2015.09.30
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Abstract

Livestock is one of the major contributors of greenhouse gases (GHGs). It accounts for 14.5% of the global GHGs emissions like methane ($CH_4$) from enteric fermentation and manure, nitrous oxide ($N_2O$) from manure and fertilizer. Since enteric emissions are a major contributor of $CH_4$ than that of manure emissions hence primary efforts were made on reducing enteric emissions, with minor attention to dung emissions. Many researches were conducted by dietary manipulation to mitigate enteric $CH_4$ emission. However dietary manipulation also had significant effects on manure GHGs emissions too. Several works proved that manure $CH_4$ emissions were increased with high level of concentrate supplementation despite reduction in enteric $CH_4$. Fat and CP content of the diet has shown inconsistent results on manure $CH_4$ emissions. Amount of concentrate in the diet has shown little effect whereas dietary CP content exhibited conflicting effects on manure $N_2O$ emissions.

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