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Title	News letter July-Dec 2014 (ICAR-IISS, Bhopal) Not Available

Creator	Not Available

Subject	INVEST IN SOIL HEALTH FOR FOOD SECURITY

Description	The trinity of healthy seeds, healthy soil and enough water is indispensable for successful agriculture and prosperity of India. Using biotechnological breakthrough we may succeed to develop high yielding crops, but can it produce that yield on the impoverished soil ? Continuous mining of soil nutrients by high yielding crops and imbalanced fertilization since the Green Revolution has created a widespread negative balance ( 10 million tonnes/year of NPK) of major and essential micronutrients, and this gap is continuing year after year. The soil biota, which is the 'root' of healthy soil for efficient nutrient cycling is losing its genetic and functional diversity due to imbalanced fertilization, injudicious use of pesticides, unabated soil pollution and negligible or no return of organic residues. Soil carbon has reached to less than a critical level of 0.5% in many areas, rendering the soil more fragile, poor in buffering and resilience against biotic or abiotic stresses. INVEST IN SOIL HEALTH FOR FOOD SECURITY Not Available

Date	2018-12-11T10:15:01Z 2018-12-11T10:15:01Z 2014-07-01

Type	News Letter

Identifier	Not Available Not Available http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/15717

Language	English

Relation	Not Available;

Publisher	Indian Institute of Soil Science (ICAR-IISS, Bhopal)

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