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Canadian canola: potential additional soil carbon sequestration (1996 to 2018).
| Annual increase in carbon sequestered based on 1996 average (kg carbon/ha) | Crop area (million ha) | Total carbon sequestered (million kg) |
Carbon dioxide (million kg) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 0.0 | 3.5 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 1997 | 3.3 | 4.9 | 15.83 | 58.09 |
| 2000 | 3.3 | 4.9 | 15.79 | 57.96 |
| 2010 | 32.5 | 6.5 | 211.72 | 777.00 |
| 2015 | 32.5 | 8.1 | 262.70 | 964.10 |
| 2018 | 32.5 | 9.1 | 296.40 | 1,087.79 |
| Total | 3,371.69 | 12,374.11 |
Note: NT/RT = +55 kg of carbon/ha/yr CT = −10 kg of carbon/ha/yr
