A worm burrows its way through the dark earth, ingesting particles of soil and expelling nutrient-rich casts in a constant ... Pollution kills microbial life in the soil; deforestation and ...
Beneficial relationships between plants and soil microbes play a critical role in agriculture, providing sustainable ...
The researchers added soil rich with native mycorrhizal fungi obtained ... The results suggest that active management of soil ...
Applying this microbe-rich ... for soil formation and succession. “After rice cultivation, farmers put rice straw and other plant waste on to the paddy,” Kobayashi says. If the microbial ...
Decomposition of biomass by soil microbes results in carbon loss as CO 2 from the soil due to microbial respiration ... a product that often gives carbon-rich soils their characteristic dark ...
With the global population expected to reach 9.6 billion by 2050, food demand is growing rapidly, posing challenges to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. China, a large agricultural ...
Su expanded her organic farming business by working with smallholder farmers to meet the growing demand for organic produce.