India is the top country by agricultural methane emissions in the world. As of 2020, agricultural methane emissions in India was 502,192.3 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent that accounts for 14.22% of the world's agricultural methane emissions. The top 5 countries (others are Brazil, China, the United States of America, and Pakistan) account for 42.93% of it. The world's total agricultural methane emissions was estimated at 3.53 million thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent in 2020.
The description is composed by our digital data assistant.Agricultural methane emissions are emissions from animals, animal waste, rice production, agricultural waste burning (nonenergy, on-site), and savannah burning.