Sentence examples for declining soil from inspiring English sources
Sasha Kramer works in Haiti to address two fundamental problems: a lack of toilets and declining soil fertility.
There are a number of factors that account for this decline, including increasing land degradation, declining soil productivity, pests and diseases, climate change and unpredictable weather patterns.
The biggest challenges facing farmers are: pest and disease control in crops; changing weather and rainfall patterns; access to tools and agri-chemicals; and declining soil fertility.
After a few years of planting, the field was abandoned to the forest, as competition from weeds and declining soil fertility resulted in diminishing yields.
Agriculture increasingly disrupts their traditional migratory routes, as increasing food needs and declining soil fertility have pushed farmers to expand their fields.
In arid and semiarid rangelands, soil erosion has been widely considered an important soil degradation process and one of the main factors responsible for declining soil fertility.
While, previous researches showed that Gp4 and Gp6 were positively correlated with soil pH43,44 and were easily adjusted with soil pH change, we speculated that the decline of some potentially beneficial microbes induced by the declined soil pH under long-term coffee monoculture may be one determined factor for coffee poor growth in pots and low yield in the fields.
According to van der Wall (1986) and Mambo and Archer (2007), Africa now stands for rapid land degradation, declining fertility, soil erosion and drought.
More recent work has also described a declining exponential soil production function in which the highest rate is at zero soil depth.
Soil solution extraction indicated that generally, most organic acids were present in the highest concentration in surface O horizons (10 100 μM) declining with soil depth.
The large proportion of the interviewed HHs (95.5%) reported that there was a declining in soil erosion and an improvement in vegetation cover over the past years.
