Importance of soil testing
What is soil testing? Soil testing is a very useful tool for the farmers to determine the fertility status of the soil. It includes various chemical processes to determine amount of available plant elements/nutrients in the soil, in addition gives details on the chemical, physical and biological properties that are vital for plant nutrition, or “soil […]
Chemical and biological treatments: Pros and Cons
What are Chemical treatments? The largest group of plant infection, diseases, and crop loss are caused by pathogens such as fungi, viruses, etc and by weeds, pests’ attack. Chemical treatments: a method of agriculture disease management using different chemicals. Chemical treatments act on these diseases causing pathogens and are widely applied in agriculture to control […]
Humic Substances: Humic, Humic Acid and Fulvic Acids
What Are Humic Substances? Plants at the end of the life cycle get decomposed in the presence of microorganisms and with the help of mineralization tend to return to soil in the form of organic matter. These large organic carbon-chain complexes composed of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and sulfur, contributing towards the brown or black […]
