**5. Conclusion**

In the degraded land Soil organic carbon acts as the centre of soil health through positive regulation of soil physical, chemical, biological and ecological functions. The integrated management practice like conservation agriculture does not only

## *Sustainable Carbon Management Practices (CMP) - A Way Forward in Reducing CO2 Flux DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.97337*

add carbon to the soil directly but also reduce fossil fuel CO2 emission, oxidation of SOC. Cover crops and crop diversity are beneficial for combating disease- pest occurrence, support healthy above ground and below ground biomass production. Legume in a crop rotation supports aggregate formation and stabilisation and ultimately protects the aggregate associated carbon through chemical polymerisation and physical occlusion. INM is beneficial over imbalanced chemical or sole chemical fertiliser application. Though biochar is another effective amendment for carbon sequestration in agricultural land, the higher carbon foot print associated with its production technique (CO2 production during pyrolysis and more CO2 emission from amended plots) can offset it as a climate change mitigative- adoptive practice. Soil C sequestration is not a permanent solution for all climate change related issues but is a holistic approach to restore degraded soil, reduce erosion, increase agronomic yields and reduce CO2 emission into the atmosphere at the same time. Thus, careful selection of carbon management practice according to climatic and soil condition is necessary for making it agriculturally and environment friendly.
