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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2025, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (8): 90-97.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2024-0563

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Analysis of Changes in Carbon Footprint of Farmland Before and After Tobacco Planting in Huang-Huai Tobacco Growing Region

ZHANG Yang1(), DU Yuhai2, DONG Xiaowei1, LIU Yang2, LIU Liwei3, YAN Huifeng3, KONG Decai1()   

  1. 1 China Tobacco Shandong Industrial Co. Ltd, Jinan 250014
    2 Shandong Weifang Tobacco Co., LTD., Weifang, Shandong 261205
    3 Key Laboratory of Tobacco Biology and Processing, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs,Tobacco Research institute of CAAS, Qingdao, Shandong 266101
  • Received:2024-08-26 Revised:2025-01-18 Online:2025-03-15 Published:2025-03-14

Abstract:

To investigate the carbon emission characteristics of tobacco-dominant agricultural fields in the Huang-Huai region, this study took the rural complex as the basic research unit, and analyzed the changes in the carbon footprint of farmland ecosystem before and after tobacco planting. The main carbon emission links were identified, which could provide theoretical basis for the realization of green and low-carbon management in tobacco-dominated farmland areas. This study selected an agricultural complex in Shandong, which had transformed to a tobacco-dominant model since 2019. Through a questionnaire survey of raw material input, agricultural management measures, yield and other factors in the planting process of different local planting systems, the carbon footprint and composition of farmland production in 2018 and 2020 were calculated using the life cycle method. In 2020, the economic benefit per unit area reached 41548 yuan/hm2, which was 3.2 times of that in 2018. Carbon emission per unit area in 2020 was 185.45 t/(hm2·a), with an increase of 108% compared with 2018, and carbon sink per unit area was 548.9 t/(hm2·a), with a decrease of 30% compared with 2018. Carbon footprint per unit area and carbon footprint per unit yield decreased by 48% and 40%, carbon production efficiency and carbon ecological efficiency decreased by 58% and 75%, and carbon economic efficiency increased by 103%. The carbon emission per unit area of flue-cured tobacco planting system was 119.40 t/(hm2·a), 64% of the regional average, and the carbon sink was 98.8 t/(hm2·a), 18% of the regional average. Flue-cured tobacco cultivation was a weak carbon active cropping system. After the farmland system was changed to flue-cured tobacco as the main planting system, the carbon sink of the whole region decreased, carbon emissions increased, and carbon footprint decreased significantly.

Key words: Huang-Huai tobacco area, tobacco-plant, rural complex, life cycle assessment, carbon emission, carbon footprint, Huang-Huai tobacco growing region