Sentences with phrase «soil fertility became»

Developing and demonstrating practical methods of rebuilding natural soil fertility became J.I. Rodale's primary goal when World War II's sudden shortage of nitrogen fertilizer — as it was diverted to making munitions — exposed the natural nutrient poverty of the nation's soil.

Developing and demonstrating practical methods of rebuilding natural soil fertility became J.I. Rodale's primary goal when World War II's sudden shortage of nitrogen fertilizer — as it was diverted to making munitions — exposed the natural nutrient poverty of the nation's soil.

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Salination reduces soil fertility, while populations keep increasing and reservoirs become silted, so reducing storage capacity and electricity production.

Belarus has become one of the pilot countries to implement projects in land restoration in order to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality by 2030, reversing the processes of land degradation and raising soil fertility and productivity.

Once it became known that plants could be grown without soil organic matter, or humus, so long as there was an adequate supply of all essential mineral nutrients, Liebig used his fame as a chemist to devalue the important role of humus to soil fertility and promote inorganic mineral fertilizers as all that was necessary.

They used a hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus), unavailable to us new world types, and the spring divination thing got picked up by others, becoming imbolc for the Celts and Candlemas for the Christians eventually, all of which is tied up with the usual mix of fertility, purification and divination concerns, plausible in Europe where the green tips of things might just start pushing up through the soil along about now.