Sentences with phrase «decreases soil health»

However, frequent soil cultivation decreases soil health and disrupts the ecological system; increases fuel and labor costs, and brings buried weed seeds to the soil surface.

And there is such a system that can offer a variety of benefits to not just the grower, their local neighborhood, and their community, but can also address some of the larger challenges that we as a species are facing, such as water and food scarcity, decreasing soil health, and resource depletion.

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This research could have important implications for developing countries whose populations rely on rice as a staple of their diets and are in need of cheap, readily available material to improve soil quality and decrease arsenic levels that threaten human health.