Measuring changes in soil carbon levels is a difficult task. Uncertainty about soil carbon measurement, monitoring, and verification is affecting agriculture’s role as an offset provider under a cap-and-trade program. There is ample evidence that skepticism is warranted. Soil carbon varies significantly at short distances—the carbon difference between samples collected within a meter can easily...

The behaviour of the stabilized lateritic soil obtained from Amaoba, Nigeria treated with green crude oil was statistically studied using analysis of variance with interaction, Kruskal-Wallis test, and expected mean square methods to validate the effect of the additive on the strength properties of the stabilized soil. First a preliminary test was conducted on the soil to classify the soil as a...

Efficient soil management practices depend on the spatial distribution of soil properties which varies significantly even within the same field. Considering that it is impossible for any monitoring technique to provide spatially continuous data, spatial interpolation plays an indispensable role in estimating the missing values where no actual value was measured. The objective of this study was ...

15/35 Abstract Crop production on smallholder agricultural land must increase considerably if the growing world population is to be fed. To achieve this, affordable soil testing methods, fertilizer recommendations and the accessibility of optimal fertilizers containing the required nutrients are required. The SoilCares mobile laboratory offers affordable soil testing using infrared spectroscopy...

Approximatelly 0.6 million tons of petroleum is poured into soil, groundwater, rivers and oceans every year in China. A large amount of the oil contaminated soil has not been remediated. The contaminated soil poses a severe threat to the environment and must be taken care of. Bioremediation has become one of the most popular and promising technologies with growing demand for the remediation of ...