Smart Way of Understanding the Importance of Soil Fertility ​

When it comes to soil fertility, it is important to focus on rebuilding soil health and vitality. Thus, it requires an understanding of several areas in order to achieve proper soil management.

Building Soil Fertility

The way nature builds soil fertility involves diversity and intense cooperation. In this case, every ecological niche is filled without leaving any area bare or opportunity lost. However, nature may take a very long time to fill up a missing or deficient area to accumulate from rainfall and dust. That is why nature needs help from people because the soil is crucial for the existence of plants and animals.

Essential Part of Survival

Fertile soil will ensure the survival of plants. Fertile soil is able to hold plants in place while giving them life-supporting nutrients for survival.

Plants ensure the survival of man. The nutrients from food needed by living organisms including man essential for survival comes directly or indirectly from plants.

Plants Need Fertile Soil to Absorb Ingredients for Photosynthesis

Inorganic nutrients such as water and carbon dioxide, as well as sunlight, are easily absorbed by plants with fertile soil.

Water – Fertile soil has a spongy structure. This will enable water to enter due to the porous surface and to retain it to make it available for plants to absorb through the roots. The moment plants absorb water from the soil, it will serve as an inorganic nutrient essential for photosynthesis.

Carbon Dioxide And Sunlight – The structure of soil that is fertile is stable. This is why it enables the soil to prop up plants. This gives time for plants to bolster up, while the pores on their leaves can absorb CO2 and chlorophyll pigments in the chloroplasts of their cells will be able to soak up solar energy from the sunlight.

Fertile Soil Gives More Life-Supporting Nutrients to Plants

Not only do plants absorb water, but they also take other nutrients from soil using their roots. Thus, fertile soil offers plants with lots of additional food to support plant life.

Nutrients Found In Fertile Soil

Macronutrients – These types of nutrients are needed by plants in large quantities. Such would include nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, which often appear in fertilizers.

Secondary macronutrients – Such type of nutrients include calcium, magnesium, and sulfur.

Micronutrients – Plants also need this type of nutrients in smaller servings. Some of them include boron, copper, chlorine, iron, manganese, molybdenum, and zinc.

Organic Farmers Benefit from Fertile Soil

Soil fertility is also important for organic farmers because it can preserve soil organisms. When beneficial living things are preserved in soil, it can help farmers conserve soil.

The presence of different plant nutrients in the soil can increase soil fertility. This can be done with the help of the living things found in soil. In fact, some of them are microscopic, which play a major role in the fertility of the soil.

Replenishing Nutrients in Soil

Recycling nutrients through animal waste

Obtain and apply fertilizers

Microbial action like nitrogen fixation

For more information on soil fertility for your farm, contact Precision Agronomics today!

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