Sentence examples for maintaining soil quality from inspiring English sources

Microbes have been reported to be a key factor in maintaining soil quality and increasing rice yield and growth.

This remains crucially important to maximize crop production while at the same time maintaining soil quality (through balanced nutrition) and reversing nutrient depletion.

Geranium is a nearly a 9 months' crop; it provides enough time for crop residue turnover, thus maintaining soil quality in terms of nutrients, soil respiration, microbial biomass, and microbial activity in the soil.

The application of 90 kg N ha−1 under minimum tillage even without applying any residue (MTNRN90) proved quite effective in maintaining soil quality index as high as 1.10.

Although the importance of bacteria for ecosystem functions and maintaining soil quality in agriculturally managed systems has long been recognized, the influence of land use type and management type on soil bacterial communities is poorly understood.

Crop diversification increases resource use, reduces production cost, and improves or maintains soil quality in intensive agriculture systems (Andersen et al. 2004).

Understanding the changes in soil labile C and enzyme activities under different land uses is important to maintain soil quality and health and for sustainable land use.

Long-term experiments can provide realistic and effective conditions for obtaining the exact information required to maintain soil quality by determining changes in soil properties and processes (Li et al. 2008).

With regard to soil sustainability, applying crop residues to both rice and wheat could maintain soil quality for a longer period, whereas the highest yields of both the crops were recorded in the NPK + Zn + S treatment.

From the results, it is not possible to determine whether the local groundwater will be contaminated, but caution should be taken to maintain soil quality by reducing the leaching loss of nutrients.

Furthermore, insecure land tenure reduces people's incentives to maintain soil quality because they have no permanent rights to the land.