Showing posts with label soil fertility. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soil fertility. Show all posts

Friday, 10 April 2020

How to improve fertility of Clay soil

Clay soils are very sticky. The water will not percolate down the soil. The stagnet water will increase the vulnerability to various plant diseases. Hence here let us see few ways to increase the soil fertility of the soil. The following steps are useful for improving clay soils:  • Reduce compaction, because once the soil becomes compacted it sticks together. This makes root growth difficult, as well as making it difficult for people...

Friday, 6 February 2015

Green Manure for soil fertility management and its benefits

Green manuring is a practice of ploughing or turning into soil undecomposed green plant material for the purpose of improving physical structure as well as the fertility of the soil. It increases the availability of plant nutrients that contribute to the yield of the crop.     The microbial activities are enhanced as the fresh organic material acts as the nutrient source for the diverse soil flora and fauna. The structure of...