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A single lever could ease India's twin agricultural pressures of fertilizer pollution and groundwater stress

A new study from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) has shown that redesigning India's cereal cultivation patterns around nitrogen management could significantly reduce environmental damage while maintaining calorie produc...

A single lever could ease India's twin agricultural pressures of fertilizer pollution and groundwater stress
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A new study from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) has shown that redesigning India's cereal cultivation patterns around nitrogen management could significantly reduce environmental damage while maintaining calorie production and improving agricultural sustainability.

Originally published at Phys.org

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