ASSESSMENT OF SOIL ORGANIC MATTER MANAGEMENT IN POLISH AGRICULTURE

Sustainable Agriculture, Soil Health, and Soil Organic Matter

The latter two principles protect the soil resource on which all food and fibre production ultimately depends. However, agricultural production systems differ from ‘natural’ or undeveloped systems in that they can be considered to be ‘leaky’ with respect to nutrients. This is inevitable, due to nutrient removal in harvested product, but inappropriate fertiliser management can exacerbate the ‘le...

Assessing Soil Quality in Organic Agriculture

Soil organic matter and management of plant-parasitic nematodes.

Organic matter and its replenishment has become a major component of soil health management programs. Many of the soil's physical, chemical, and biological properties are a function of organic matter content and quality. Adding organic matter to soil influences diverse and important biological activities. The diversity and number of free-living and plant-parasitic nematodes are altered by rotat...

Ding Et Al.: Tillage Management Affecting Soil Organic Matter

ganic C (SOC). Soils of the southeastern United States of America, particularly sandy Coastal Plain soils, have Soil organic matter (SOM) is of primary importance for maintaining inherently low SOC contents (typically below 1%, Hunt soil productivity, and agricultural management practices may signifiet al., 1982). Consequently, small changes in the SOM cantly influence SOM chemical properties. ...

Factor Analyses the Management Skills in Development of Organic Agriculture in West Azerbaijan Province Farms

Organic agriculture, sometimes called biological or ecological agriculture, combines traditional conservation-minded farming methods with modern farming technologies .The purpose of this research was to identify management skills in development of Organic Agriculture in West Azerbaijan Province (Iran) farms. The target population of this research included all agricultural experts who work in We...