Soil: Our Only Renewable Resource
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Sustainability South West Board Member and Organic Farmer, Cate le Grice Mack, presents on the value and importance of soil at the South West Observatory Land and Food Seminar.
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2. It provides goals for sustainable agriculture systems, including providing profitable farm incomes while promoting environmental stewardship, stable farm families/communities, and reducing inputs.
3. The document outlines several practices for sustainable agriculture, such as using cover crops, crop rotation, and integrated pest management, to improve soils and reduce pollution.
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organic farming is very helpful for nutrition security in India. now a days all food crops are adulterated which leads to varies new disorders in human health
Healthy soil healthy food healthy people
The document summarizes findings from the Haughley Experiment, a long-term study comparing organic and chemically-treated farming systems. The experiment found that the organic system, which used rotations and recycled nutrients without chemicals, produced higher quality soil and crops while requiring less inputs. Soil under organic management had higher humus, more available minerals that fluctuated with plant needs, and crops showed greater disease resistance and nutritional quality. The study provided evidence that organic methods can produce sustainable agriculture without chemical intervention.
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Insurance against future.ppt
Biodiversity provides countless benefits to humans. It increases ecosystem productivity and sustainability by increasing the variety of life forms and their interactions. Biodiversity underpins key services like water purification and soil formation. It also has economic value through industries like agriculture, fisheries, and medicines. Preserving biodiversity ensures these services continue and provides optionality for future scientific and economic opportunities.
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This document provides an overview of a course on food crop farming. The course aims to provide students with applied knowledge in crop husbandry and food production processes in order to ensure food and nutrition security. It covers topics such as the development of agriculture, cropping systems, food crop distribution, the nutritional and economic value of food crops, soil science, and crop husbandry techniques.
Role of farming system in sustainable agriculture
The document discusses the role of farming systems in sustainable agriculture. It defines farming systems as a combination of farm enterprises like crops, livestock, and forestry that interact with the environment without disrupting ecological or socioeconomic balances. Sustainable farming systems achieve increased productivity while enhancing natural resources. They are made up of various components like labor, crops, water, and soil. Adopting suitable farming systems provides advantages like optimized ecosystem functions and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Factors like population, technology, policies, climate, and soil affect farming systems. The document also discusses concepts like crop diversification, sustainable agriculture, and its goals and components which include soil conservation, nutrient management, and water quality. It highlights economic, environmental and social
Agricultural Management..
1. Agricultural management involves the science and application of practices related to food production, including farming techniques, animal domestication, and food processing.
2. Careers in agricultural management can involve a wide range of activities from laboratory research to working with farm labor in fields, and the management of agricultural production systems aims to meet growing global food demand in a sustainable way.
3. Key strategies for agricultural management include using the highest yielding crop strains, integrated pest management, crop rotation, irrigation, fertilizer management, and conservation practices to protect soil and water quality while improving yields.
Importance of biodiversity to humanKinds
Biodiversity is essential for human well-being and survival. It provides vital goods and services like food, medicine, clean air and water. Each species, no matter how small, plays an important role in ecosystem productivity and sustainability. At least 40% of the global economy and 80% of needs of poor people are derived from biological resources. Biodiversity also has immense aesthetic, cultural and spiritual value for humans. While we have benefited from biodiversity in many known ways, most of its benefits are still unknown as important species and ecosystem functions have yet to be discovered. Loss of biodiversity therefore poses a major threat to humanity's future welfare and progress.
IMPROVEMENT IN FOOD RESOURCES CHAPTER 15 NCERT
This document discusses various methods for improving food resources in India, including sustainable agriculture practices like organic farming, improved crop yields through genetic manipulation and crop management techniques. It covers different crop seasons, the use of manure and fertilizers, irrigation methods, cropping patterns, weed control, plant diseases and grain storage. It also discusses animal husbandry practices like cattle farming, poultry, fish production, and bee-keeping to increase food production.
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- 12. Farming for food and biodiversity 2. Biodiversity aiding the wider farm economy
Editor's Notes
- Soil forms through the action of weather and micro-organisms on the bedrock. As it forms it acts as the life support for an ever expanding world of flora and fauna. . In turn it too expands, and managed well provides an ever growing blanket of fertility, water retention and purification.
- What is missing from this slide is the biomass: the macrofauna (worms etc), mesofauna (small invertebrates such as nemotodes and moluscs) and micro fauna (soil animals less than 0.3 mm in length) and micro flora (bacteria ,fungi, viruses etc etc). We still don’t fully know and understand the complexity and scale of soil micro organisms, but with every bit we find out we realise how spectacular and valuable they are: and how naïve we are about their interactions.
- Input: total precipitation, mist and fog intercepted by foliage some transpired through leaves, some involved in photosynthesis, and some evaporated off Direct to the ground: the more foliage there is the less will reach the ground That which does reach the soil: *some is evaporated off (depending on saturateion of air) *some infiltrates the soil, either reaching roots to be taken up by plants, or penetrating the soil to reach round water or contribute to baseflow *the rest becomes runoff
- Flash flood effect – poor soil – more total water into river system in shorter time span Good soil structure effect – less water total, and even more critically, distributed over much longer period with lower peak flow But it isn’t only water that is under that red line: there will be tonnes of fertility: the softer top layers of soil will be washed away far more readily in the red scenario than in the green: larger particles will have been removed and often the underlying bedrock disturbed. The red colour of the Brue or the Exe is the farmers’ fertility being washed away
- Tell Stroud soil story
- Active soils gain contributions of minerals from the bed rock Deep rooting plants contribute to this: for example lucerne has 2 metre roots, breaks up plough pans, traps N from the atmosphere and fixes it through bacterial activity within the soil, ready for slower release over months and even years.
- Protecting organisms – eg be wary of such things as livestock wormers – the ivermectin story
- Cow pats and rented land story Australian cowpats and the introduction of dung flies Dung beetles play a remarkable role in agriculture. By burying and consuming dung, they improve nutrient recycling and soil structure. They also protect livestock, such as cattle, by removing the dung which, if left, could provide habitat for pests and parasites