Soil Health and Crop Management for Sustainable Agriculture
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 3777
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The increasing population and reductions in the amount of land and other resources have created tremendous pressure on current agricultural producers to meet the increasing demand for food. To cope with this challenge, certain key inputs, such as fertilizers and other chemicals, are overused, which are negatively impacting the environment. Intensive agricultural production without adherence to ecological sustainability has led to declining soil health, land degradation, and severe environmental problems. Therefore, future efforts to feed the growing population should aim for greater agricultural production within sustainable environments. Soil health is an inherent characteristic of soil. In modern agriculture, the excessive use of chemical fertilizers enhances soil degradation, leading to salinity, acidity and compaction, nitrate leaching, soil compaction, and reduced soil organic matter and crop yield. Healthy soil ensures optimum moisture, provides a significant amount of beneficial microorganisms and optimum nutrients, lowers the levels of toxicity due to heavy metals and pesticides, increases plant productivity, and removes greenhouse gases from the atmosphere through sustainable agriculture. Maintaining soil health and following proper agronomic management practices may lead to sustainable agriculture, which holds promise for humankind and Earth, and it can be successful if all developed and developing nations stand together to produce more food with fewer environmental pressures and seek “our common future”.
Dr. Priyanka Gautam
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- soil health
- sustainability
- crop management
- intensive agriculture
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