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In an agricultural field, which among the following is the highest producer of methane?
ChemistryEnvironmental ChemistryAP EAMCETAP EAMCET 2020 (21 Sep Shift 1)
Options:
  • A Wheat crop
  • B Paddy crop
  • C Cotton crop
  • D Groundnut crop
Solution:
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The correct answer is: Paddy crop
Rice is grown in flooded fields, a situation that depletes the soil of oxygen. Soils that are anaerobic (lacking oxygen) allow the bacteria that produce methane from decomposing organic matter to thrive. Some of this methane then bubbles to the surface, but most of it is diffused back into the atmosphere through the rice plants themselves. Hence, rice Paddy field that produces maximum methane gas into the atmosphere.
Hence, option (b) is correct.

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