The phrase 'poor soil quality' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a type of soil that is not very optimal for sustaining plant growth. For example, "The farmers had trouble harvesting the crop due to the poor soil quality in the area."
Poor soil quality and inefficient production methods limit the profitability of its small farms.
The hazards of geography -- the prevalence of deadly tropical diseases, poor soil quality and remoteness from trading routes -- placed Africa at a serious economic deficit, Mr. Sachs insists.
The largest urban centres are Łódź, Piotrków Trybunalski, Pabianice, Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Bełchatów, Kutno, and Sieradz.Almost seven-tenths of the province is agricultural, and, despite predominantly poor soil quality, farming plays an important role in the local economy.
They knew lime could correct the poor soil quality of the savannah that Brazilians call cerrado.
Poor soil quality usually provides a poor production of crops (Franzlubbers and Haney 2006; Idowu et al. 2008).
At upper and middle catchment due to lack of irrigation facility, poor soil quality, inadequate non-farm activity are contributing to increase number of marginal workers quite rapidly.
Switchgrass will grow under a wide range of climatic conditions and has demonstrated high productivity in fields with marginal-to-poor soil quality while requiring low water, fertilization, and herbicide inputs (McLaughlin et al. 1999).
This study has demonstrated for the first time that there is a spatial association between deprivation and poor soil chemical quality for a major post-industrial UK city.
LAS GAVIOTAS, Colombia — In the 1960s, an aristocratic Colombian development specialist named Paolo Lugari took a road trip across these nearly uninhabited eastern plains, a region so remote and poor in soil quality that not even Colombia's historic upheavals of violence had taken root here at the time.
The KGR is located on land with poor soil and pasture quality (Mohamed-Saleem 1986).
Poor water quality associated with poor soil and water management has resulted in waterlogging and salinization which has reduced soil quality and agricultural productivity (Bouksila et al. 2013).
