A healthy soil is considered to be a stable soil, rich in biological diversity, with high levels of internal cycling of nutrients and with a resilience to stress factors.
Soil Health is a multi-disciplinary “science”; however, the main driver is live microbes within the well-known soil food web containing several trophic levels which, within a healthy soil, are in “trophic harmony“ cycling nutrients upon demand from the host (crop) plant.
WHY THIS FACILITY?
Farming communities worldwide are realizing with shock that the abuse metered out to soils over the years are negatively impacting on the natural “living” soil health sustaining systems.
Excessive tilling, soils left bare, excessive fertilizer and/or chemical applications creating dust bowls, surface crusting, poor water infiltration and holding capacity, together with declining productivity, among several other problems.