Economic and environmental assessment of tobacco production in Northern Iran

Mirkarimi, Seyyed Reza; Ardakani, Zahra; Rostamian, Reza

doi:10.1016/j.indcrop.2020.113171

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“…Its yield and quality play a crucial role in tobacco industry. Continuous cultivation is prevalent in areas ideal for tobacco cultivation, owing to factors such as fertile land resources, economic interests, and cultivation practices ( Liu et al, 2020 ; Mirkarimi et al, 2021 ). Continuous cropping causes the soil to harden, the plow layer to become shallow, the organic matter content to decrease, the quality of soil fertility to decrease, and the level of land productivity to decline ( Aparicio and Costa, 2007 ), resulting in significant economic losses and seriously affecting the sustainability of the tobacco industry.…”

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Returning ryegrass to continuous cropping soil improves soil nutrients and soil microbiome, producing good-quality flue-cured tobacco

Zhou,

Zhang,

Yang

et al. 2023

Front. Microbiol.

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The widespread and continuous cultivation of tobacco has led to soil degradation and reduced crop yields and quality. Green manure is an essential organic fertilizer that alleviates obstacles to continuous cultivation. However, the plant–soil microecological effects of green manure on flue-cured tobacco cultivation remain unclear. Thus, a positioning trail including two treatments, chemical fertilizer application only (treatment NPK) and chemical fertilizer application with turning ryegrass (treatment NPKG) was conducted, and the effect of ryegrass returning on the soil physicochemical properties, soil microbiome, crop yield, and quality of flue-cured tobacco in continuous cropping soil were investigated. Results showed that returning ryegrass to the field increased the thickness of soil humus layer from 13 cm to 15 cm, reduced the humus layer soil bulk density to 1.29 cm3/g. Ryegrass tilled and returned to the field increased soil organic matter content by 6.89–7.92%, increased rhizosphere soil available phosphorus content by 2.22–17.96%, and converted the soil non-exchangeable potassium into potassium that was available for plant absorption and utilization. Ryegrass tilling and returning to the field increased the potassium content of middle leaves of flue-cured tobacco by 7.69–10.07%, the increased potassium content in flue-cured tobacco was accompanied by increased total sugar, reducing sugar, and the ratio of reducing sugar to nicotine, which facilitated the harmonization of the chemical composition of cured tobacco leaves. Moreover, the increased number of markedly improved operational taxonomic units enhanced the complexity of the soil bacterial community and its compactness after ryegrass tillage and their return to the field. The available potassium, available phosphorus, total potassium content, pH, and sampling period of the rhizosphere soil had considerable effects on the rhizosphere microbial. Ryegrass tilling and returning to the field changed the soil microbiome, which increased the abundance of bulk soil Proteobacteria, rhizosphere soil Fibrobacterota, and microbes with anti-pathogen activity (Lysobacteria, Sphingomonas, Chaetomium, and Minimedusa); and reduced the abundance of pathogenic fungi Neocosmospore genus in the soil. In brief, ryegrass returned to the field, improved soil microecology and restored soil nutrients, and established a new dynamic balance of soil ecology, thereby improving the quality of cultivated land and the quality of flue-cured tobacco.

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Returning ryegrass to continuous cropping soil improves soil nutrients and soil microbiome, producing good-quality flue-cured tobacco

Zhou,

Zhang,

Yang

et al. 2023

Front. Microbiol.

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“…The environmental feasibility of the laboratory scale and pilot scale process can be determined using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method. In cradle to the grave method of LCA, evaluation of the environmental impacts of a product is based on all resource inputs and emissions from the entire process (ISO Standards 14040 & 14044 (2006); U.S. EPA (2006) Life Cycle Assessment Principles & Practice EPA/600/R-06/060) 15 . The environmental impacts can be studied in four phases, i.e., goal and scope of the study, life cycle inventory analysis, life cycle impact assessment (LCIA), and interpretation and reporting of results.…”

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Environmental Impact Assessment and Process Upscaling for Sustainable Production of Cellulose Nanofibre, a Biopolymer Derived from Lignocellulosic Biomass

Bulbul Gupta,

Amita Sharma,

Anjana, Subhasish Dutta

et al. 2023

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As an agricultural waste, rice straw has a requisite quality for conversion to nanocellulose; however, the environmental and technical feasibility of the processes available has not been assessed at commercial scale. Therefore, in the present work commercialization and environmental impacts of the cellulose nanofibre (CNF) production from rice straw were evaluated by scaling up the laboratory-scale process to the pilot scale level. Life cycle assessment (LCA) of the laboratory scale process showed the maximum impact of electricity (161 kg CO2 eq) and sodium hydroxide (7.82 kg CO2 eq) on global warming potential; though, the overall impacts got reduced approximately three times (~51 kg CO2 eq for electricity) with the scale-up of the process. When compared with the reported literature both the scales of production were found to have lesser environmental impacts. Further, the techno-economic feasibility of the process was evaluated at different plant capacities for the optimum minimum selling price (MSP) of CNF. At the plant capacity of 15 kg/day, the MSP of CNF was calculated as $16,537.36/tonne dropped to $14,944.87 and $14,590.98/tonne with the increased batch capacity of 30 kg/day and 45 kg/day, respectively. Through sensitivity analysis, the MSP of CNF was observed to be highly sensitive to the cost of capital investment and chemicals cost. In addition, analysis of the uncertainty associated with the identified cost drivers reflects the scope for inherited risks, as determined by the Monte-Carlo simulation method. This study established an environmentally and economically sustainable process for commercialisation of nanocellulose production from agricultural waste at a minimum cost of production.

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“…Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) is the most important non-edible agricultural product worldwide (Reichert et al, 2019;Mirkarimi et al, 2021). China is the largest tobacco producer worldwide, growing 1,100,000 ha by almost 1,520,000 farmers that yield 2,610,000 tons of dried leaves every year (Shahbandeh, 2021).…”

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Metabolic Profiling of Resistant and Susceptible Tobaccos Response Incited by Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum Causing Bacterial Wilt

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The causal agent of bacterial wilt, Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum, can cause significant economic losses during tobacco production. Metabolic analyses are a useful tool for the comprehensive identification of plant defense response metabolites. In this study, a gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) approach was used to identify metabolites differences in tobacco xylem sap in response to R. pseudosolanacearum CQPS-1 in two tobacco cultivars: Yunyan87 (susceptible to R. pseudosolanacearum) and K326 (quantitatively resistant). Metabolite profiling 7 days post inoculation with R. pseudosolanacearum identified 88 known compounds, 42 of them enriched and 6 depleted in the susceptible cultivar Yunyan87, while almost no changes occurred in quantitatively resistant cultivar K326. Putrescine was the most enriched compound (12-fold) in infected susceptible tobacco xylem, followed by methyl-alpha-d-glucopyranoside (9-fold) and arabinitol (6-fold). Other sugars, amino acids, and organic acids were also enriched upon infection. Collectively, these metabolites can promote R. pseudosolanacearum growth, as shown by the increased growth of bacterial cultures supplemented with xylem sap from infected tobacco plants. Comparison with previous metabolic data showed that beta-alanine, phenylalanine, and leucine were enriched during bacterial wilt in both tobacco and tomato xylem.

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Economic and environmental assessment of tobacco production in Northern Iran

Cited by 17 publications

References 30 publications

Returning ryegrass to continuous cropping soil improves soil nutrients and soil microbiome, producing good-quality flue-cured tobacco

Returning ryegrass to continuous cropping soil improves soil nutrients and soil microbiome, producing good-quality flue-cured tobacco

Environmental Impact Assessment and Process Upscaling for Sustainable Production of Cellulose Nanofibre, a Biopolymer Derived from Lignocellulosic Biomass

Metabolic Profiling of Resistant and Susceptible Tobaccos Response Incited by Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum Causing Bacterial Wilt

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