2022 Volume 67 Pages 67-73
Finding countermeasures to combat climate change is an urgent issue for human prosperity. Crop science contributions could prevent a climate crisis by reducing greenhouse gas emissions or through the development of flexible crop cultivation techniques to cope with the increasing variability of weather conditions. In this mini-review, exploratory cultivation techniques we have developed are discussed by comparing these methods with conventional cultivation techniques. Firstly, the possibility of methane reduction using ultra-fine bubbles is described as a contribution to mitigate the climate change. Next, the close mixed-planting technique that can cope with the continuous occurrence of floods and droughts, which are expected to increase with climate change, are briefly explained. Finally, one of the possible cultivation techniques is raised based on the soybean cultivation in an upland field converted from paddy in the near future in an advanced climate change scenario.
