Carbon capture potential in banana crops in Ecuador

The banana is the agricultural fruit with the greatest production in Ecuador, the same that, due to the characteristics of its crop, generates a large amount of annual biomass. During their life cycle each banana plant manages to absorb a significant amount of CO2, reaching about 40% of its total mass in the form of organic carbon product of the absorption of CO2 [1]. This natural carbon capture represents a clean and economical form of CO2 emissions kidnapping, which is considered greenhouse gas with the highest impact. However, these crops also have a calculable carbon footprint. This is why this study proposes to quantify the net dejection rate of this gas. Starting from the hypothesis that the banana cultivation has a positive net rate of carbon dejection, the equivalent emissions of CO2 will be related due to the cultivation process and the total amount absorbed by the plant during its life cycle, creating opportunities in an international framework for the purchase and sale of carbon credits and as information for future research on this subject.

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