Carbon sequestration by teak (tectona grandis ) plantation at malanjkhand copper project, District Balaghat, M.P.

Soil carbon sequestration is the process of storing carbon underground to curb the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Although the earth naturally stores carbon in forest, oceans, and soil, these carbon sinks are unable to excessive and increasing amount of carbon dioxide humans continue to emit. As a result, researchers have begun to explore ways of enhancing the absorption of natural carbon sinks, as well as ways to artificially store carbon dioxide underground. This experiment was conducted to study the carbon sequestered by teak trees within the 5km radius of Malanjkhand Copper Mine, Malanjhkhand, District- Balaghat, (M.P.), India. Malanjkhand referred to as MCP (Malanjkhand Copper Project) is an open- pit copper mine in India. This was compared with the carbon sequestered by teak trees situated nearby mining and forest areas. The results and findings reveals that there are inherent problems associated with a development of copper project and due to copper mining some of the trees sequestered less carbon comparison to forest area. The teak trees underneath soil situated nearby copper mine having poor health than the soil taken underneath teak trees situated at forest area.