Jan 1, 2020 · This ever-changing soil component exerts huge influence on many soil physical, chemical, and biological properties and ecosystem functions of soils such as improving soil aggregation, increases
Jan 1, 2020 · This ever-changing soil component exerts huge influence on many soil physical, chemical, and biological properties and ecosystem functions of soils such as improving soil aggregation, increases
Jul 1, 2023 · Soil health and fertility are fundamental pillars of sustainable agriculture, ensuring long-term productivity and environmental integrity. Green manuring, a practice rooted in agroecological
Oct 31, 2024 · Despite its rapid growth and economic success, the sustainability of the floriculture industry as it is presently conducted is debatable, due to the huge environmental impacts it initiates and incurs. Achieving sustainability requires joint efforts from all stakeholders, a fact that is often neglected in discussions that frequently focus upon economically driven management concerns. This
The four strategies for improving your soil’s health are . not an all-inclusive list. Rather, these strategies provide a good base to improve overall soil health. Many of the strategies we discuss are connected and act together to improve soil health. 1. Practice No-Tillage/Strip-Tillage. Reducing tillage to either no-till or strip-till minimizes
Isolation and selection of efficient microorganisms, their characterization and testing in soil-plant The application of plant beneficial microorganisms has been widely accepted as an efficient alternative to chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
Sep 1, 2013 · KEY wORDS: Bio-enhancers, soil fertil ity, soil health, organic pr oductions. Bio enhancers are organic preparations, obtained by active fermentation of animal and plant residues over
Sep 10, 2024 · Sustainable farming practices aim to produce agricultural products at a low environmental cost, ensuring food availability for future generations. These approaches combine the production of agricultural crops and livestock for site-specific uses, with an emphasis on long-term objectives including satisfying the food supply worldwide, improving the environment, making the most efficient use of
One way that fermentation technology contributes to sustainable agriculture is by promoting soil health. The use of fermented plant extracts or biofertilizers can improve soil fertility, increase crop yields, and reduce soil erosion.
May 4, 2023 · Bio-based fertilizers (BBFs) have been promoted as a solution to help manage bio-waste problems and improve soil health conditions. Their potential is to replace mineral fertilizers due to nonrenewable energy dependency and the accumulation that threatens environmental issues. Currently, laboratory and field-based literature have been growing since European Union (EU) looks BBFs as the future
Jan 1, 2024 · Through analyzing numerous studies across the major agricultural regions in the world, we provide feasible strategies to improve soil health, such as promoting the conversion of atmospheric N2 to plant-available N to enrich soil nutrients; diversifying crop rotations using alternative, cover, and green crops to increase systems’ resilience; adop
Sep 9, 2022 · Integrating livestock into the farming system can help in maintaining soil nutrient levels and improving soil health by deploying organic inputs. This study highlights the urgent requirement of a fundamental shift from conventional agriculture to regenerative agriculture that focused exclusively on maximising yield and efficiency with key
Oct 23, 2023 · This editorial introduces our Special Issue entitled “Improving Fertilizer Use Efficiency— and Strategies for the Future”. The fertilizer use efficiency (FUE) is a measure of the
Feb 1, 2021 · The influence of Streptomyces griseorubens JSD-1 on microbial community succession during rice straw composting in an industrial-scale fermenter was assessed by high-throughput sequencing technology.
May 11, 2023 · Biowaste management and its recycling through composting is the foremost important green technology for sustainable agriculture farming that deals with the short-term and long-term impacts on the
Mar 16, 2022 · They are taking the lead to restore soil health while securing food supplies for future generations and fighting climate change and nature loss. Alfred Grand is one of them. He is a pioneer organic farmer and vermicomposting entrepreneur from Austria, who runs GRAND FARM , a 90-hectare research and demonstration farm focused on soil health