Soil health is improved through the use of legumes, green manures and cover crops, incorporation of plants with the capacity to release phosphate from the soil into rotations, use of composts and animal manures, adoption of zero-tillage, and use of inorganic fertilizers where needed.

This can be enhanced through organic and inorganic fertilizers to the soil. Nuclear techniques provide data that enhances soil fertility and crop production while minimizing the environmental impact.

1. Technology can play a key role in making agriculture more sustainable

2. The role of Agro Cares

3. Soil fertility can be maintained and improved

4. Crop rotation improves the physical and chemical conditions of soil and thus improves the overall fertility (Nitrogen-fixing legumes such as soybeans and alfalfa in crop rotations fix atmospheric nitrogen into the soil through root nodules. This nitrogen is then available for subsequent crops )

5. Nuclear techniques provide data that enhances soil fertility and crop production while minimizing the environmental impact.

6. Use of bio fertilizers.

Both composting and Anaerobic digestate have the potentiality to increase soil fertility.

A very pertinent question in the present situation. There are several means to improve soil fertility, through the adoption of suitable cropping systems, integrated nutrition management, precision input management, etc. Sustainable intensification of fallow land through legumes along with suitable tillage and nutrients management practices also a viable approach to improve soil fertility status. Overall sustainable soil fertility management approaches must reduce the over mining of the nutrients from the soil.

Sustainable soil fertility can be increased by the following ways

1. Use of organic fertilizers and manures in the soil (cow dung, compost,

vermicompost, decomposed plant residues, animal liters ect.)

2. Following crop rotation and crop calendar, alternate use of cropping pattern.

3. Following herbal and biological control of pest.

4. Cultivating and adding of green manuring crops.

5. Cultivating and adding of leguminous crop plants.

6. Regular intercultural operations and irrigation should have to be applied.

Almost all issues have been touched by Md. Abdul Kalam Azad on this aspect. In addition, it is important to test the soil to know the status. This will provide you with information on the condition of your soil for remedial action.....

Prem Baboo thanks for your kind information.

Subhash Babu, Thanks for your information suggestions.

Md. Abul Kalam Azad, Thanks for your good suggestios.

Kafula Chisanga, Thanks for valuable suggestions.

Thank you @ Sadib Bin Kabir

Soil fertility degradation is becoming an alarming issue in developing countries as the countries are striving to increase production and productivity. Soil fertility can be kept in sustainable manner in two distinctive ways.

1. Improving soil fertility through;

a. Using eco-friendly organic fertilizers like compost and vermicompost; green manuring

b. Using minimum tillage to reduce destruction of soil structures

c. Managing soil micro-organisms through keeping application of chemical fertilizers and herbicides at minimum level to reduce risks of residual impacts.

d. Exploring the potential of soil and plant nutrition research and applying fertilizers based on the recommendations

2. Maintaining soil fertility

a. Familarizing contour farming and constructing soil erosion management structures

b. using crop rotation; cereals after legume crops and based on their positive impacts on soil fertility

c. Using cover crops to avoid wind erosion during off-season

d. Use wind breaks to minimize field soil fertility degradation from storms and animal and human induced soil losses

5. Take care of the types of irrigation we use in crop production so that soil is not washed during furrow and flood irrigation.

These are my minimum recommendations and try your best to utilize the information.

If our activities are sustainable, we will be sustainable on the earth and if not we are all working to distroy our source existence.

Soil fertility can be increased by adding an adequate amount of biowaste

Thank you @Asfaw Shaka Gosa.

Thank you @ Ramachandran Muthukumrasamy.

Soil fertility cab be increased by applying farm yard manure & vermicompost in the soil.

Thank you @ Paramasivam Sivaraj.

Soil fertility can be maintained by using following steps as written under

Least disturbances of soil via mechanical or physical processes (tillage) so as to expose lesser proportions of soil into sunlight or environmental air

Diversified crop rotation so as to use diverse quantities of crop with different spatial and temporal characteristics...like inclusion of legumes in the system

Use of cover crops / soil organic cover so as to enhance microbial proliferation in order to recycle nutrients

Use of organic amendments like FYM poluty manures vermicomposts press mud etc

Use of biologically active materials like biofertilisers etc

Adoption of organic farming or natural farming

Management of soil organic carbon with zero-tillage, best possible method to increase long term soil fertility in soil.

How do we look at regenerative farming....to be redefined and reoriented to increase soil fertility , unless associated with consequential crop response....

Soil fertility can be increased by Biofertilizer such As VAM, Nitrogen fixing bacteria, proper irrigation, addition of organic and inorganic fertilisers and to stop soil erosion

Thank you @ Himanshu Verma.

Thank you @ Mahipal Choudhary.

Thank you @ Anoop Kumar Srivastava.

Thank you @ Zahid Fazal.

A integrated soil management approach, can play a vital role in this regards. viz zero-tillage, biofertilizer, compost fertilizer, green manuring plants cultivation etc.

Thank you @ Dr. Md. Abdur Razzak Choudhury.

In my opinion, using less tillage methods and using biofertilizers and organic fertilizers along with chemical fertilizers can help maintain soil fertility.

Thank you @ Keyvan valizadeh rad.

The addition of biowaste (degraded plant and animal waste) along with integrated nutrient management will encourage sustainable soil fertility

Thank you @ Ramachandran Muthukumrasamy.

Soil fertility is the ability of the soil to sustainably supply nutrients to the growing plant. Numerous soil management practices can be done to sustain soil fertility however, most of them are difficult to achieve in order to address the food security problem. The reason is these practices are site specific.

Thank you @ Luz G. Asio.

The question is very valuable. Without food you can not live, and to ensure food security for the overincreasing world population, we have to produce more....however to increase the production we have to maintain sustainable soil fertility. To do this effectively, an Integrated management approach should be followed: use bio fertilizer, green manuring, zero tillage, mulching, use different compost fertilizer including vermi compost etc....

integrated nutrient management is the best method to practice and to support the soil sustainability and to feed the growing population of world.

Thank you @ M. D.H. Prodhan.

Thank you @ Arunkumar B R.

Soil fertility can be sustained by "land fallowing" and "crop rotation".

Dear Abdul Aziz, you may look through the following RG links:

Book Soil Fertility management for Sustainable Agriculture

Book Soil Fertility Management for Sustainable Development

Article Soil Fertility Management, a Tool for Sustainable Disease an...

Book Soil Fertility - An Important Aspect of Sustainable Agriculture

Dear ABDUL Aziz, I believe that chemical fertilizers, in the long run, deplete the soil; so it is necessary to use more and more chemical fertilizers to achieve the same results. For this reason, it is necessary and appropriate to use only and exclusively organic fertilizers and the alternation of crops possibly with plants that accumulate nitrogen in their roots such as leguminous plants.

Thank you for your nice comments @ Arvind Singh.

I appreciate you for giving me the important article @ Harasit Kumar Paul.

I appreciate you for your important discussion @ Leonardo Cannizzaro.

soil fertility can be improve by use of multiple approach by organic farming farming will be good,bio fertilizer,crop rotation with legumes crops, ,use of bio char will be good one.

@ Pankaj Yadav

I wish to express my gratitude and best regards to you for your nice comments and contributions. Yes, you are correct. Thank you so much for your contributions.

Nice question it can be maintained by proper irrigation system, decrease in leakage of nutrients, addition of Biofertilizer and Growth promoting substances, addition of organic fertilisers and less dependence on pesticides etc

Dear Abdul,

Soil fertility can increase adding organic matter to the soil, crop rotation, biofertilizer, biochar and also control the soil erosion, using cover crops and mulching etc.

Prava Kiran Dash

By incorporating principles of appropriate crop rotation like cereals followed by legumes, use of organic manures, use of cover crop in the system, avoiding indiscriminate use of fertilizers, Inclusion of legumes in the system, use of organic mulches, use of bio fertilzers and bio ammendements etc

Soil fertility can be improved and maintained using different techniques. Now adays, integrated soil fertility management is the most recommended. For instance, green manuring, fallowing, crop rotation, conservation farming, compost and vermicompst application are few methods.