The best way to maintain the fertility of fields

The ability of the soil to saturate plants in the process of their growth and fruiting with useful substances, water and air is called fertility. Its value directly depends on crop yields.

Scientists have long been looking for a universal way to maintain the fertility of fields. In the article several options are considered, with the help of which it is possible to maintain soil nutrient at the proper level.

Standard methods

Proven agrotechnical measures, through which the soil fertility is maintained , are:

• Regular introduction of organic materials. Such fertilizers are universal. They improve the structure of heavy soils and bind light sandy loams.
• Correct treatment of fields, rejection of heavy equipment and cultivators, which turn the top layer of the earth into dust. Fertility is simply "blown away" from the fields.
• Regulation of the acid-base balance of the earth by means of liming or acidification.
• Crop rotation is a reliable and proven way to maintain the fertility of the fields. The main essence of the method is the correct alternation of crops with the purpose of maintaining the balance of nutrients in the soil , minimizing the accumulation of pathogens.
• Black steam is expensive, but a good way to maintain the fertility of the fields. For 1 season on earth nothing is sown, giving it a rest, to gather strength before the new harvest.
• Use of green fertilizers - siderates.

Environmental hazard

Recently, it is increasingly said that the optimal way to maintain the fertility of fields should be ecological and completely natural. Black steam, siderates, crop rotation and the introduction of organic fertilizers will not do harm.

Chemistry - mineral fertilizers, melioration - is not capable of ensuring the safety of the biosystem. Accumulating in the soil, penetrating into the groundwater and washing off into terrestrial reservoirs, the chemicals reach a concentration dangerous to the living organism. The consequences of this process can be not only poisoning the environment, but also the death of individual species.

Innovations

Doctor of Medical Sciences, biotechnologist Igonin AM Suggested a revolutionary way to maintain the fertility of fields - the use of earthworms to produce biohumus - a highly effective organic fertilizer.

The method is very cheap and simple to perform. It is only necessary to fertilize the fields with organic matter, inhabited by earthworms. Best for this purpose is a special red Californian worm.

Working, earthworms convert organic fertilizer into a humate, possessing a number of useful properties for plants. Thanks to it, the yield increases, the maturation period becomes more uniform and the quality of the produce improves . Humates are also capable of neutralizing toxins in the soil.

The use of earthworms as a way to maintain the fertility of fields is an innovation and has not yet been widely implemented in Russian farms.