METHANE BUDGET FROM PADDY FIELDS IN INDIA

Results of national methane campaign launched in 1991 to assess methan e budget from Indian paddy fields are reported. The campaign involved a number of scientific institutions and universities with National Phy sical Laboratory at Delhi operating as a nodal agency and covered most of the major rice growing regions of India. Methane emission rates ra nged between -0.64 and 84.1 mg m(-2)h(-1). The methane budget from Ind ian paddies has been estimated to be around 4.0 TgY(-1) with a range b etween 2.7 to 5.4 TgY(-1). Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd