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With climate change and global warming impacting soil composition and crop production, scientists have stressed upon the need for increased carbon sequestration to mitigate environmental degradation and address food security. Carbon sequestration is being increasingly viewed by experts as one of the crucial strategies to address challenging issues of climate change effects, besides imparting sustainability to productivity. According to a paper published by the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR), the results of a current technical review have revealed that agricultural soils have lost about 30–75 per cent of their inherent soil organic carbon (SOC) pool, which is “quite alarming”. In agricultural land use systems, increased carbon dioxide emission into the atmosphere is repeated through frequent cultivation of croplands, crop residues, biomass burning, shifting cultivation, cultivation of low biomass producing crop cultivars, land degradation and deforestation.