Potential of C sequestration in agricultural soils of India indicates that greenhouse gas emissions from the tropical Indian soils (both zeolitic and nonzeolitic) do not seem to contribute significantly to the global warming potential. You may refer to the paper attached.
Please have a look at these links.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26563072
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261913009616
Dear Ashutosh,
(1) In humid tropical regions of eastern India, jute (Corchorus olitorius and C. capsularis) is cultivated as a commercial/ fibre crop during pre-kharif season (from March/April to July/August). Presently about 9,00,000 hectare area of agricultural land iin India cultivated to jute. In just 120 days of its life cycle, jute plants grown in one hectare area can absorb 15 ton of carbon dioxide from air which can be returned to the soil. Thus presently jute crop alone can absorb 13.5 million ton of carbon dioxide from Indian air (per season), and by expanding area under Jute cultivation we can increase carbon sequestration potential of the country.
(2) The capacity of Jute plant to tap atmospheric carbon dioxide is more than other fast growing perennial forest trees like eucalyptus and pines (these trees can fix about 11 tons of carbon dioxide per hectare area in 120 days period).
Electrifying vehicles will be a good idea for reducing the consumption of petroleum products.
A few other possibilities and studies carried out around the world are as follows
http://www.ccsassociation.org/docs/2008/British%20Embassy%20Tokyo%20-%20Note%20on%20CCS%20in%20Japan%20March%2008.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hitoshi_Koide/publication/245159076_Possibility_of_underground_CO_2_sequestration_in_Japan/links/0f31753009db53c0e2000000.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sequestration
Article Possibility of underground CO 2 sequestration in Japan
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