Restoring soil quality to mitigate soil degradation

R Lal - Sustainability, 2015 - mdpi.com
Feeding the world population, 7.3 billion in 2015 and projected to increase to 9.5 billion by
2050, necessitates an increase in agricultural production of~ 70% between 2005 and 2050 …

Nutrient management impacts on organic carbon pool in soils under different cropping systems in the Indo-Gangetic Plains in South Asia

P Singh, BS Farmaha - Proceedings of the Indian National Science …, 2023 - Springer
Nutrient management impacts the dynamics of organic carbon (C), C sequestration and
various C pools in soils and sustainability of cropping systems through biomass input and …

A review on effective soil health bio-indicators for ecosystem restoration and sustainability

D Bhaduri, D Sihi, A Bhowmik, BC Verma… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Preventing degradation, facilitating restoration, and maintaining soil health is fundamental
for achieving ecosystem stability and resilience. A healthy soil ecosystem is supported by …

Establishment of critical limits of indicators and indices of soil quality in rice-rice cropping systems under different soil orders

S Biswas, GC Hazra, TJ Purakayastha, N Saha… - Geoderma, 2017 - Elsevier
Rice-rice is one of the major cropping systems in Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) of South Asia.
Assessment of soil quality and identification of key indicators with their critical limits are very …

Developing a soil quality index to compare soil fitness for agricultural use under different managements in the Mediterranean environment

E Armenise, MA Redmile-Gordon, AM Stellacci… - Soil and Tillage …, 2013 - Elsevier
Due to increasing land-use pressures, soil-quality assessment is in growing demand, thus a
standard set of procedures to assign a soil quality index (SQI) would be beneficial. In this …

The positive relationship between soil quality and crop production: A case study on the effect of farm compost application

T D'Hose, M Cougnon, A De Vliegher… - Applied Soil …, 2014 - Elsevier
In order to ensure sustainable agriculture, and for evaluating the effects of management
practices on soil processes, tools for assessing soil quality are required. The development …

Evaluation of multiple linear, neural network and penalised regression models for prediction of rice yield based on weather parameters for west coast of India

B Das, B Nair, VK Reddy, P Venkatesh - International journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Rice is generally grown under completely flooded condition and providing food for more
than half of the world's population. Any changes in weather parameters might affect the rice …

Soil quality assessment of wheat-maize cropping system with different productivities in China: Establishing a minimum data set

P Li, K Shi, Y Wang, D Kong, T Liu, J Jiao, M Liu… - Soil and Tillage …, 2019 - Elsevier
The double-cropping of winter wheat and summer maize is a major grain production system
in China which occupies more than half the double-cropping systems of the country's …

Assessing the soil quality of Bansloi river basin, eastern India using soil-quality indices (SQIs) and Random Forest machine learning technique

GC Paul, S Saha, KG Ghosh - Ecological Indicators, 2020 - Elsevier
In order to address agronomic sustainability issues for the densely populated country like
India tools for assessing soil quality are the prime requisite. In the present study with the …

Ecological mechanism and diversity in rice based integrated farming system

PK Nayak, AK Nayak, BB Panda, B Lal, P Gautam… - Ecological …, 2018 - Elsevier
The dynamic and transitional characteristics of rice field ecosystems provide an excellent
environment for integration with compatible components such as fish and duck, which …