Soil Analysis: Recent Trends and Applications
Soil analysis is critically important in the management of soil-based production systems. In the absence of efficient methods of soil analysis our understanding of soil is pure guesswork. Ideally the pro-active use of laboratory analysis leads to more sus
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Soil Analysis: Recent Trends and Applications
Amitava Rakshit • Subhadip Ghosh • Somsubhra Chakraborty • Varughese Philip • Avishek Datta Editors
Soil Analysis: Recent Trends and Applications
Editors Amitava Rakshit Dept. of Soil Science & Agri. Chemistry Institute of Agricultural Science, BHU Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India Somsubhra Chakraborty Agricultural & Food Engineering Dept. Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
Subhadip Ghosh National Parks Board Centre for Urban Greenery and Ecology Singapore, Singapur, Singapore Varughese Philip Soil Management Lab, Plant Science and Health, Horticulture and Community Gardening Division National Parks Board Singapore, Singapore
Avishek Datta Asian Institute of Technology Dept of Food, Agriculture & Bioresources Klong Luang, Pathum Thani, Thailand
ISBN 978-981-15-2038-9 ISBN 978-981-15-2039-6 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2039-6
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Preface
Soil science as profession can address the challenges of the recently adopted UN Sustainable Development Goals in the most befitting manner. The sustainability of human societies depends on the wise use of natural resources. Soils contribute to basic human needs like food, clean water, and clean air, and are a major carrier for biodiversity. It has been repeatedly shown that a proper soil analysis is important for several aspects: to optimize crop production, to guard the environment from contaminati
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