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Let's talk about soil

9/26/2014

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Credits:
Director: Uli Henrik Streckenbach
Design: Uli Henrik Streckenbach, Ronny Schmidt
Modelling: Ronny Schmidt, Uli Henrik Streckenbach
Character Rigging: Maik Lochmann
Animation: Uli Henrik Streckenbach, Ronny Schmidt
Scarecrow Artist: Andrea Abendroth
Concept: Uli Henrik Streckenbach

Music and Sound Design: Marcus Illgenstein
English Voice: Robin Merrill
Foley Artist: Martin Langenbach, Metrix Media
Foley Recording Engineer: Christoph Wieczorek,

Metrix Media

Foleys recorded at Metrix Media.
Voice-over recorded at VSI Verlin.
"We must open our eyes and find ways to apply our knowledge so we don't end up losing the ground under our feet." 

This animated film tells the reality of soil resources around the world, covering the issues of degradation, urbanization, land grabbing and over-exploitation; the film offers options to make the way we manage our soils more sustainable.

For more information visit
globalsoilweek.org
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Nutrient starved soil leads to nutrient starved people*

9/24/2014

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SUMMARY

The so called, “modern farming” green revolution allowed the Philippines to achieve surplus rice production sometime in the late 1970’s. Consequently, the Philippines was able to export 200,000 tonnes of rice in 1982. However, said year of surplus was short lived; it was not sustainable. It even resulted to soil impoverishment and exhausted reserve fertility for the farm soil.

Decades of NPK fertilization under the green revolution program practically sapped the Philippine farm lands of their organic matter content.

Typical soil test in rice, sugar and coconut farm lands showed organic matter content levels as follows; 1.17%, 1.04%, 0.62%, 0.28%, 0.08%, and in some cases nothing at all. These levels are way below the 4% level for fertile soil.

In growing a good crop, there is a need to supply the plant with 16 essential nutrients. The plant has to be provided with all the essential plant nutrients. Unfortunately, the present condition of Philippine farm soil with low organic matter content can no longer supply all the essential nutrients despite heavy NPK fertilization. Micro-nutrient fertilization becomes a necessity and organic recycling is mandatory.

Applying NPK fertilizers alone to an infertile farm soil results to nutrient starved crops and that feeding people with nutrient starved crops will deprive said people of many essential nutrients. This results to malnutrition and a malnourished populace.

*Excerpt from an article published in ASIAN BUSINESS magazine, NEWSFOCUS section, 1983
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Plants need BIOZOME

9/23/2014

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BIOZOME: A source of micro-nutrients

How BIOZOME works
  • Supplies the plant with vital micronutrients which are necessary for plant growth, reproductive development and crop quality.
  • Enhances the proliferation of beneficial soil organisms that improve soil organic content and native fertility potentials.
  • Maintains ideal soil pH condition by facilitating the oxidative and reductive processes in the farm soil.
  • Serves as a catalyst that ensures long-term nutrient availability for effective plant and microbial utilization.

Benefits from use
  1. Excellent crop growth -- By supplying the necessary secondary and micronutirent elements, which become limiting and deficient under natural condition, obviously results to excellent crop.
  2. Rejuvenation of farm soil -- BIOZOME enhances the proliferation and activities of beneficial soil microbes that improve soil organic content and native fertility potential.
  3. Increase in yield & substantial savings on inputs -- Many farmers tend to supply plants with increasing volumes of NPK fertilizers to achieve increased yields not knowing that in general, it is the deficiency in a single or a number necessary secondary and/or micronutrient elements that cause declining yields or even crop failure. At present, with the use of BIOZOME together with inorganic or organic fertilizers, many sugar, rice and corn farmers gained higher yields even with reduced inorganic NPK fertilization thereby decreasing input costs while increasing revenues.
  4. Sustainable growth even at relatively low pH condition.

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Philippine soils are deficient in micro-nutrients

9/23/2014

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       When a plant absorbs nutrients from the soil, it leaves behind a depleted planting ground. Consequently, the soil must be replenished to provide the optimum nutrition for succeeding plantings.
        Through the years, Filipino farmers have applied various fertilization technologies to return essential nutrients to the soil. Unfortunately, traditional "organic" and macro-nutrient (NPK) fertilizers provide an inadequate solution to nutrient depletion.
Bureau of Soils and Water Management findings
        Studies conducted by the Bureau of Soils and Water Management (BSWM) have exposed the micro-nutrient deficiency* of soils in the Philippines due to the continuous removal of soil nutrients, through non-stop mono-cropping, without micro-nutrient replenishment.

               Lately, the planting of two or more crops a year in irrigated areas or multiple cropping patterns in regions with limited land areas has resulted to the continuous removal of macro- and micro-nutrients without replenishment of the latter. This resulted to what is felt now as micro-nutrient deficiencies in almost all parts of the country. (Soils and Water Technical Bulletin: Foreword)

        Planting high-yielding varieties of rice and corn continuously and fertilizing with only NPK fertilizer has caused the depletion of the essential micro-nutrients present in the soil.

Interpretation of the micro-nutrient status
        The micro-nutrient deficiency limits for several crops on diethelenetriamine-pentaacetic acid (DTPA) extractable micro-nutrients are as follows:
             Zinc:   0.5 ppm
             Copper:   0.2 ppm
             Iron:   4.5 ppm
             Manganese:   1.0 ppm
        Nutrient readings below or near these figures will cause nutrient imbalance (due to deficiency) and may result in possible crop failure. On the other hand, values above these numbers, but significantly below the average, will cause a "hidden hunger" that will translate into a less-than-optimum crop yield.
          *As reported by the BSWM in their :Soils and Water Technical Bulletin: Special Issue"
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Nutrients and Fertilization

9/23/2014

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The 16 essential nutrients
     To achieve the maximum genetic potential of a plant, 16 essential nutrients must be present in the growing environment. Of the 16, three are available in the air and water, and the remaining 13 are derived directly from the soil (see illustration below).
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Nutrients from air and water (3)
These three nutrients are part of carbohydrates, fats, proteins and vitamins.
     1. Carbon (C)
     2. Hydrogen (H)
     3. Oxygen (O)
Nutrients from soil (13)
Most of the nutrients utilized by the plant are found in the soil. These nutrients are divided into three categories: macro-nutrients, secondary nutrients, and micro-nutrients.
     Macro-nutrients (3)
     4. Nitrogen (N) - a major component of protein
     5. Phosphorus (P) - an indispensable component of adenosine triphosphate
     6. Potassium (K) - regulates osmotic balance and cell turgor
     Secondary nutrients (3)
     7. Calcium (Ca) - like potassium, also regulates osmotic balance and cell turgor
     8. Magnesium (Mg) - an essential constituent of chlorophyll
     9. Sulfur (S) - essential for the formation of most proteins
     Micro-nutrients (7)
     10. Boron (B) - essential in cell division
     11. Chlorine (Cl) - helps in the growth and development of plants
     12. Copper (Cu) - important in the utilization of protein and in chlorophyll formation
     13. Iron (Fe) - essential in chlorophyll formation
     14. Manganese (Mn) - part of an enzyme involved in chlorophyll synthesis
     15. Molybdenum (Mo) - needed in the reduction of nitrates to nitrite
     16. Zinc (Zn) - an essential component of many plant enzymes
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