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Agriculture is one among the sources of greenhouse gas emission in the World. Agriculture, being a prominent source of economic sectors in developing countries its impact on environmental climate changes both directly and indirectly through emission of greenhouse gases.  To achieve reduced GHGs emissions in agriculture sector, there is a need to adopt climate smart activities and improved food and nutritional security to ensure a climate-smart sustainable agriculture. This short article explores the key ways to mitigate green house gases emissions in agriculture and critically highlights the potential for bacterial nitrogen fixation in soybean which is a recent approach. Symbiotic nitrogen fixation shows a great potential for GHGs mitigation while supporting the agriculture simultaneously. Other agronomic practices include tillage, residue management, rice field management, climate smart agriculture, organic farming and bio energy etc. This will help the farmers and other stakeholders to bring an environmentally friendly agriculture towards more ecological farming approach for future sustainability.

A laboratory experiment was conducted at GBPUA&T, Pantnagar during rabi season of 2020-2021 to study the influence of seed invigoration with organic kunapajala on germination and biochemical activity in wheat variety UP-2526. The experiment was laid in completely randomized design which consisted of five treatments viz; no seed priming (control), Hydropriming for 16 hours, kunapajala seed priming @10%, 25% and 50% for 16 hours. Results revealed that germination percentage in hydro primed seeds and 25% kunapajala primed seeds jointly recorded maximum germination percentage (99.7%) which was statistically at par with 10% kunapajala priming (99.3%). Seed reserve mobilization efficiency after 4th day and 8th day of incubation was significantly affected by seed invigoration treatments. 25% kunapajala primed seeds recorded significantly higher dehydrogenase activity (0.68 OD) which was at par with hydroprimed seeds and 10% kunapajala primed seeds (0.63 and 0.62 OD, respectively). So, seed priming with either 10% or 25% organic kunapajala is an effective method to bring about improvement in germination of wheat and predict its field performance.