Adoption organic farming can improve soil, say Bari scientists
Adoption of organic farming can become the major solution to improve the soil alongside ensuring the farmholders with better profit margin and consumers with the quality food, claims scientists at the Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (Bari).
Began in 2006, a field trial of organic farming over 33 decimal land at Bari has led to the doubling of the organic matter content in the soil that has also resulted in the reduction of input requirement and improvement of the quality of the crops and vegetables compared to those produced by a chemical input dependent method.
Over the last seven years of the field trial, the organic matter content in the soil was increased from 1.14 percent to 2.79 percent, while the cost of fa...