Role of soil physical, chemical and biological properties for soil health improvement and sustainable agriculture
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Soil health refers to the ecological equilibrium and the functionality of a soil and its capacity to maintain a well balanced ecosystem with high biodiversity and productivity. Soil health as a tool for sustainability, physical, chemical, and biological properties. Among the physical indicators, soil texture, aggregation, moisture, porosity, and bulk density have been extensively used, while among chemical indica¬tors soil pH, total C and N, mineral nutrients, organic matter, cation exchange capacity and biological ones such as microbial biomass C and N, biodiversity, soil enzymes, soil respira¬tion, etc., in addition to macro and meso-fauna play a major role in maintenance of soil health. Many human activities have caused desertification, loss of biodiversity, disruption of aggregates, loss of organic matter and nutrients. It is imperious to maintain soil health and productivity with increasing emphasis on reforestation and recovery of degraded areas through the use of organic amendments, reintroduction of plants, soil fauna and microorganisms.Keywords:
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Soil biota (the living organisms in soil) plays an important role in soil development and soil formation.They are the most important component of soil organic matter decomposition and behave efficiently in the development and formation of soil structure and soil aggregate.Their biodiversity provides many functional services to soil and soil components.They help in dissolving verities of plant and animal materials, which could left as decayed organic matter at the surface soil.Understanding the vital role of soil organisms would undoubtedly helps to increase food production and reduces poverty, hunger and malnutrition.Soil biota and biodiversity research in sub-Saharan Africa would play an important role in sustaining food security, environmental health, water quality and forest regeneration.This paper, briefly highlighted some of the biological functions of soil biota and suggests that proper understandings of biota and their biodiversity in soil environment would provide ways to get better understanding of soil health, soil function, soil quality and soil fertility under sustainable soil management activities in agricultural production.
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