ABSTRACT
Anthropic actions are always very harmful to environment as long as the industrial peoples and farmers are interested to use chemical products and natural resources excessively to meet their needs. However, recently, an ecological approach based on the use of green manure can be adopted as sustainable development approach of agriculture in the world. This study focused to analyze agronomic and ecosystem services potentialities made by green manure use of to explore its various functions. Different authors indicated that green manure plants have various potentialities namely economic services, ecological services, positive effects on plant health and quality and quantity of yield, carbon sequestration, improvement of soil health and biodiversity, landscape services, and mitigation of soil water losses, air pollution and environment degradation. Because of a few economic profits comparatively to those from the use of excessive agrochemical products, the ecological compensation mechanism is the main way to promote farmers to plant green manure for sustainability of agriculture.
Keywords: Green Manure; Ecosystem Services Values; Economic Services; Ecological Compensation
Introduction
The global impact of climate change caused by the excessive
use of natural resources and the over growth of world population
harms biodiversity species and disturbs ecosystem functions. It
was identified that land degradation, one of many consequences
of poor management. (Holden, S., Shiferaw, B., & Pender, J., 2005)
[1] of natural capital (soil, water, and biodiversity such as vegetal
and animal organisms) is the problem of worldwide caused
anthropological manipulation of land, which altered chemical,
physical and biological soil properties (Lal, R, 2001). The Global
Assessment of Human-Induced Soil Degradation project (GLASOD)
in 1988 estimated 1,964 million (nearly 2 billion) hectares
degraded worldwide and more than 22% of combined agricultural
land pasture and woodland were destroyed by human-induced
soil degradation (Chen H. J. et al. 2014). This problem of land
degradation evolved the climate change, biodiversity, food security,
quality of water and air. The resource land is characterized by a
complex structure of two interlocking systems: a system of natural
resources ecosystems and human society. The interaction between
them determines how natural resources are managed (Temengsgen
G et al. 2014). For example, the findings of Lingling Hou (2012) [2]
estimated that 50% of the land in China was degraded and more
than 466 million hectares have been affected. That situation caused
environmental and ecological damages [2].
However, overuses of agrochemical products [3] were
fundamental causes of soil degradation in the worldwide. It would
like to cite chemical fertilizers and pesticides. The agricultural
industry is ranked first for the consumption of pesticides with
1.84 Mt in 2014 and non-biological pesticides account for 91.78% in China [4]. Many researchers stated that green manure
is useful to limit those negative effects of using of artificial
products in agriculture. The world community would undertake
maintaining soil fertility and biodiversity in order to assume the
equilibrium between food supplies, the population growth and safe
environment [5]. To reach this objective, many governments have
undertaken different measures for conservation and sustainable
use of biological diversity [6]. Operationally, many farmers must
use green manure to limit the excessive application of chemical
products in agriculture. The objective of this review is to give the
answers to this big question: How green manure practices could
perform farming production and environment damage?.
The environment scientists tried to complete the commitment
of the States in implementing the convention on Biological Diversity
universally acknowledged in 1992 by discovering that the use of
green manure could be one of the solutions of land degradation,
agricultural products quality and environment damage. This is
why this review paper tried to give different explanations and
details about various agricultural performances and ecosystems
services provided by green manure. By definition, green manure is
produced by ploughing leaves and roots of green plants at maturity
into the soil. After a while, they become compost or green fertilizer
[7]. According to some writers, green manures are the material of
plant-incorporated into the field [7,8] and for others green manure
is plants used to produce compost or green fertilizer [5]. That
big question of research has been answered through reviewing
numerous publications based on the benefits of using green
manure. Methodologically, this review summarizes and discusses
the finding from the following principal publications reviewed
below: (Table 1).
Use of Green Manure
According to Costanza Robert (1997) [12], the natural ecosystem
services were defined as the benefits that the nature provided to
humans through natural resources transformations into a low of
essential goods and services [12]. In this way, green manure is used
to fertilize degraded agricultural land and save biological diversity
in the soil. To optimize the ecological and economic services value
from green manure, farmers used diverse models of planting such
as rotation fallowing, inter-cropping and double cropping. Those
technologies improve ecosystem services, support agricultural
production performance and safe environment.
The use of green manure contributes to maintain ecosystem
systems and to give ecosystem services value to human
interventions which aim to promote sustainable development.
Green manuring increased the CO2 concentrations and providing
biological-Nitrogen in the soil [13,14], soil shade, soil organic
matter (SOM) and soil organic carbon (SOC) when turned into the
soil [14,15] as economic benefits [15], ecosystem services [7], and
mitigation of pollution and beautify landscapes.
Green Manure Species
In the world, it is observed many kinds of green manure and cover crops those farmers use as green fertilizer in the fields for different reasons. However, the ryegrass (Lolium perenne), winter oilseeds (Brassica napus ssp. oleifera var. biennis), and winter rye (Secale cereale L.) were used in mixture to control the biomass and weeds and to increase crops yields in rotation crops [15]. In South Africa, according to the evaluation of green manure legumes have the potentiality to increase the crops yields in smallholder farms (Jude, J.O.O., 2011) [16]. It can be used in tropical region to increase the yield and agronomic performance of common beans [17]. Then, green manure plants play a significant role in farming systems management through its functions, such as the financial services, ecosystem/ecological services, and cultural landscape services functions [18] (Rovanovskaya A.A 2008).
Economic Services Functions
The practice of green manuring reduces the biomass, the density of the weeds, and increases at maximum the crop yields and the green manure crops could improve the health of soil when it was turning into the ground after maturity [7,8]. Green manure practices bring economic benefits [9] through reducing the costs of inputs of the farmers, increase yields. It is not easy to capture all of these gaps of costs during the process of the market transaction [19] without adapted scientific methods. It is observed the indirect effects of green manure practices on the cost of disease damages management (McGuire, A., 2016). With the incorporation of different leaves of green manure (Abelmoschus esculentus) in Bhendi cropping systems, the crops growth parameters performed well and yield quality, as well as high net profit and benefit-cost ratio were observed [20]. The evaluation of economic services of green manure is very important when the research needs to understand the contribution of green manure in ecosystem system. It is used different potential applications to evaluate the ecosystems services values namely the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Contingent Valuation Method (CVM), Willingness -To -Pay (WTP) and Willingness-To-Accept (WTA), bio-economic model (Wang T. et al., 2018), and economic benefits analysis [21]. Currently, those techniques of assessment were applied in environmental impacts assessment (EIA) [20]. Referencing to the capacity of fixing nitrogen, the low-cost nitrogen, a bio-fertilizer, is provided by green manure. Those plants are good patterns of wetland rice cultivation [22].
Ecological Services
Green manure crops have the potentiality to maintain ecosystem systems [9]. Ecosystem systems provide a variety of essential services, including water, air, and health, livelihood, and well-being (Barvanera Patricia Sandras Quijas, Karp Daniel S. et al., 2016). In France, near Toulouse and Orleans, crucifer’s species, grown in the form of green manure (catch crops) released a large amount of mineral nitrogen (N) for later commercial crops and legumes cropped as green manure plants decreased the leaching of nitrates in extraordinary ways. The same authors indicated that mixing crucifers and legumes in farming systems was an operational solution to obtain multiples ecosystem services from both catch crops for providing nitrate and legumes for providing nitrogen as green manure services [23]. Specifically, Azolla, a tiny aquatic fern, was used as green manure in flooded rice planting [24]. Then, green manure crops can regulate multiples environmental problems such as pest and diseases control [25], carbon sequestration [18,26]. It contributes to water filtration mitigation, climate control [26], and beautification of the living environment. However, green manure improves air purification and quality of agricultural products [27,28] because conventional farming systems are the sources of Green Houses Gases (GHG) emissions [26].
Plant Health Improvement
The weeds are unwanted plants that hosted pathogens (Rodgers V.L, Stinson K.A and Finzi A.C. 2008) and play a principal role in various ecosystems. Many of those weeds led to direct and indirect damages in farming ecosystems such as the losses of fertile agricultural lands, biodiversity, areas for grazing animals, and production of livestock, chocking of navigation and canals of irrigation and diminution of the availability of water in the rivers. However, green manuring, by adding carbon into the soil (Blumenthel, D. M. Jordan, N.R. and Russelle, M.P 2003), is one of the different sustainable farming systems which can successfully bring sustainable weed control for environmental, social, and economic benefits and wellbeing (Garnavel L and Natarajan S K 2014). Green manure /covers crops destroy weeds, which could theoretically act as causes of pathogen inoculum for crops and make returning accumulated nitrogen to the soil, reduced nitrogen leaching, avoid erosion, and improve soil structure [23]. In Pacific North- West of United States of America, the green manure (Cover crops, Mustard, Sudan grass, Lupine, and Marigold used as biological control and canola, Crambe, meadowfoam, Milkweed, seed meals organic amendment) reduced the nematode impact (Meloidogyne chitwoodi) on potatoes by 50-80%, provide nematode control comparable to fumigation and improve soil physical characteristics especially water infiltration and penetration of resources [29]. Then, green manure crops and cover crops, used as green manure, played a significant role in controlling diseases and nematodes, which harm cropping patterns.
Carbon Sequestration
Farming systems can be a source of dioxide of carbon (CO2), and when it surpasses plant carbon fixation by photosynthesis, CO2 contributes to climate variability. In 2002, Reicosky estimated that tillage of the soil led to carbon losses between 30% and 50 %. However, when farmers incorporated green manure crops into the soil, they captured CO2 through the humification of soil organic matter (SOM) fractions after the mineralization process and the content of soil organic carbon (SOC) increased [11]. However, green manure displayed a significantly greater soil organic carbon (SOC) than the crops taken as a reference [30]. Thus, green manure crops and cover crops contain the potential capacity to sequestrate carbon and improve smallholder farmers resilience with minimum trade-offs [31]. Allowing a fallow period between two seasons of cropping can increase the soil organic carbon (SOC). Then, the SOC is an effective measurement to compensate for anthropogenic GHG emissions [11,32]. In this context, Yang (2014) found that green manuring is a management strategy for mitigating soil degradation, increasing nutrient levels (nitrogen, carbon, and other micro-elements [33]. The same study indicated that green manure legumes increased significantly in the long term, the total carbon (C) and nitrogen (N), and the formation of the stable aggregate portion of the water measuring from 2 to 5 mm in the soil. Specifically, the nitrogen is the element of nutrients supplied chiefly by green manuring, since nearly all the soil, turning under the crop-legumes increased the nitrogen associated with organic matter [5].
Quality and Quantity of Yield Improvement
Reducing-cost-technology (RCT) consisted of the soil nontillage and decreasing nitrogen over-fertilizing doses with green manures before crop patterns. Those plants have high potential for restoration of soil fertility and enhancement of terrestrial crop production [34] and provided best profits compared with the other plants (Whitmore A. P. et al, 2000) [35], also contributed significantly to the nutritional demand of green manure legumes, thereby providing an agro-ecological and sustainable production [36]. The grazing of green manure, especially oat (Avena sativa), pea/oat (A. Sativa/Pisum sativum) contributed to improving the available nitrogen production in integrated crop-livestock systems [37]. This system of production of agriculture consisted of capturing ecological interactions among different systems of landuse, making agricultural ecosystems more proficient at cycling nourishment, preserved the natural resources and environment and improved the quality of the soil and enhanced biodiversity (Franzluebbers, A. J., 2007;) [26,38]. The green manure vetch (Vicia villosa) more affected the quality of biological maize (Zea mays) compared to that of fallow lands associated with organic fertilizers (phosphorus supplement) on in a field experiment of two years in central Italy [39]. The rotation of crops (Bullock, D.G., 1992) is one of the different modes of planting green manure that brings high yield of crops.
Mitigation of Soil Water Losses, Air Pollution, and Environmental Degradation
Green manuring is one of the ways of moisture conservation in the soil. Thus, the adoption of moisture conservation techniques, in situ, was increasing the moisture availability. However, the growth of green manure crops after cereal harvesting had reduced infiltration from rainfall during the autumn season in Lituany of an average between 19.4 % and 21.7 % (2003) and between 7.0 % and 8.3% (2004) such as clover produced more biomass (0.407 g/m2) with more nitrogen (7.35 g/m2) when clover incorporated into the soil and it increased nitrogen concentration.
Improvement Of Soil and Biodiversity’s Health
The soil organic matter (SOM) plays a central role in the function of farms and particularly in biologic farming [40] (Morton A. C., 2008). Green manure contributes, transformed by ploughing into the soil, to improve the physical and chemical properties and plant growth (Hrishan Chandra, 2005), [41,42]. Then, depending on its potential to fixe biological nitrogen, green manure legumes are providing nutrients to crops in cropping systems [43], The soil organic matter content is the home of millions of microorganisms which brooked down by bacteria and makes nitrogen available to plants (Pieters A.J 1927) [44]. The retention of plant nutrients (carbon, nitrogen, zinc, etc.) from organic inputs depends on the microbial community under environmental conditions [45,46] and bio-chars [47]. By using green manure, nitrogenous compounds and carbons are transformed by soil microorganisms into elements absorbed by crops [5]. In the plants, roots absorbed more nourishment concentration than shoots [48].
Why it is Necessary to Plant Green Manure in Agricultural Land?
The green manure practices safeguarded biodiversity and provided ecosystem services to agricultural systems by transforming nitrogenous compounds and carbons into elements absorbed by the next crops (Thomas Oladeji Fabunmi et al 2012; Pieters A, J., 1927). In the study conducted by Zandvakili showed that the roots had higher concentrations of nourishments than shoots [36,48]. found that the use of native species of the Caatinga Biome could affect the nutritional demand of the Market of Garden Crops significantly, thus providing a form of agro-ecological and sustainable production. Consequently, soil fertility in organic matter is managed mainly by planting green manure. For example, China milk vetch (Astragalus sinicus L.) planted and mixed with chemical nitrogen fertilizer reduced the application of chemical fertilizer (Ma Yanqin and Huang Guiqin, 2019) and increased yield of rice by 28.7% in southern China (Qin, W. et al.2012) [49] and decreased seasonal methane (CH4) flux in the mono-rice cultivation system [49]. When the application rate of milk vetch is increased, also, the yield and production of rice increased (Chang H. L., et al, 2010). The combined utilization of vegetable-green manure and phosphorus-enriched compost (P) can then be considered a reliable option for managing N and P fertility in the short and long term and maintaining plant needs [39]. Green manure and cover crops are well recognized in many systems of agriculture. The application of green manure in smallholdings provides multiples profits. Those benefits are nitrogen fixation, soil organic matter content, and weeds control, the management of disease and pests, and soil erosion control. It is a significant low-cost added-value to technological options that integrate the consideration of nature conservation and productivity of agriculture (Pratt, O.J., 2016).
Ecological Compensation is Needed to Support Planting Green Manure
Although green manuring is one of good practices for sustainable
development of agriculture, the increased cost of production of green manure reduces the willingness of farmers to plant green
manure. Another method to promote farmers to adopt green
manure is ecological compensation [9]. The eco-compensation is
an approach like a trade-off in which compensatory laws attribute
different values of the benefits of ecosystem services or the damage
of the loss of the natural environment. That compensatory act
corresponding to those goods or services lost or gains by the
environment. The compensatory law can be a mechanism to ensure
the ecosystem services flow (restoration of resources, recreation,
or conservation of nature) and maintaining the flow of natural
capital on which depending on the economy. The eco-compensation
policy aims to encourage people (He, K. et al. 2016) to participate in
sustainable agriculture.
A study conducted in Spain showed that the eco-compensation
practices in environmental impact assessment (EIA) is much
fewer because of only 407 of 1302 records of decisions (RoDs)
reviewed (31%) mention eco-compensation and only 117 of 1302
RoDs (9%) described the measures of compensation mechanism
(Villaroya, A. and Puig, J., 2013. The Willingness-To-Accept (WTA)
the eco-compensation standards for farmers of fallow winter
wheat in Hengshui, Hebei province, was 0.00095$/hm2 [50]. Many
factors affected significantly and positively the willingness of
farmers to reduce pesticides, namely the farmers’ environmental
concern, cognition of pesticide residues, the quality of agroproducts
interest, and controls of inputs. The study also noted that
regulations and countermeasures and enhancing farmers’ selfcontrol
were essential to guide farmers toward environmentallyfriendly
measures in agricultural production (Zhang L et al 2018).
On the contrary, to initiate a Pigouvian-tax, tax paid by economic
actors when their activities generate negative externalities implies
to proceed of actors’ Willingness-To-Pay (WTP) for the negative
externalities from agriculture. A study carried out using a model
of dynamic equilibrium to assess the effects of the welfare of
subsidy estimated that the impact of Pigouvian-Tax on the intensity
of financial support was negative (Yang, L. et al., 2018). The ecocompensation
based on financial support could give added-value
on the well-being of human, maintaining dynamic effects of
ecosystems and nature conservation because the Pigouvian-tax
alone cannot play a significant role to correct the most considerable
externalities in the long-run (Dennis W. C. and Glenn C. L., 1980;
Kohn, R. E., 1986) [51-55].
Conclusion
The use of green manure in agricultural fields brings various profits in terms of economic benefits and environmental safeguarding. However, green manure practices must be adopted as a new sustainable development approach of agriculture. The study reviewed various papers related to green manure benefits. It was observed that green manure technologies help farmers to various advantages namely economic benefits, carbon sequestration, nitrogen fixation, SOC content improvement, biodiversity safeguard, etc. Because of high ecosystems services values and few economic profits of farmers, an ecological compensation system could be adopted widely as a new sustainable development approach in farm systems.
Conflict of Interest
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