A new practice for improving subsoil health and crop yields

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A new practice for improving subsoil health and crop yields
Jul 28, 2021
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With the global population growing rapidly every year and with millions already having limited access to enough food, where are the new productivity-enhancing farming practices that will enable the world to produce enough food to feed 9 billion people by 2050? 

One new farming practice with the potential to improve crop yields is called ‘subsoil manuring’, developed by Peter Sale and his team at La Trobe University, Melbourne, to improve subsoils for crop growth.

Read more:  https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.agron.2020.08.003