Learning from lasagne

Porous layers of slurry, zapped with electricity, may revolutionise the treatment of contaminated clay soils

Soil scan

Soil testing can help farmers decide on the right mix of fertilisers and maximise benefits

Lasers to track erosion

Videshi works

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Quality soils

Trump of a card

Dose of phosphorus

Amazon is a desert

...when you look for soil microbe

Fertiliser from waste

Old wine in a new bottle

Leguminous trees rather than plants are a better option for improving soil fertility

Organic matters

Soil carbon can foretell soil health

Fertilizers acidify soils

Crop yield drops, plant biodiversity is impacted as a whole  

Back to basics

An air conditioning system that uses constant subterranean temperatures can become an ecofriendly alternative to conventional systems

Soil tolerates erosion

A cakewalk

Pressmud, a byproduct of the sugar industry, is a potential source of soil nutrients and wax

Modified to work

Salinity of black cotton soils can now be measured easily

Leaves from nitrogen-rich trees can be potential fertilisers

Banaras Hindu University scientists have shown that application of leaves from nitrogen-rich trees in soil can increase the soil fertility and …

Green cussedness, anyone?

They did the impossible on land that held no hope

Sulphur deficiency in Madhya Pradesh soil leads to poor harvest

We have robbed the soil of its nutrients

P N TAKKAR former director of the Indian Institute of Soil Science, Bhopal, and currently principal scientist at the Indian Agricultural Research …

Organic v conservative

Scientists contest an age-old agricultural technique

In search of famine

HARVESTING HUNGER·A video film by Krishnendu Bose·Duration: 53 minutes

Potassium in our soil is running low, threatening global food security – new study proposes a way out

A proposal for a resolution on potassium at a future United Nations environment assembly holds the key to intergovernmental action

Soil that is not soiled

Chemical-intensive farming good for soil?