AGRICULTURE NEWS - The cultivation of healthy plants depends on healthy soils, according to Dr Hendrik Smith, a conservation agriculture (CA) facilitator at Grain SA and the Maize Trust.
He was responding to an announcement by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) that 2020 had been declared the International Year of Plant Health.
Smith said healthy soils meant healthy plants and subsequently healthy people. CA was therefore of the essence to produce healthy plants.
“Healthy soils contain all the nutritional elements needed for optimal plant health, and this can only be achieved through the application of regenerative agricultural practices.”
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