Healthy Soil Grows Healthy Food - and Stronger Economies
Have you ever thought about the value of soil? It covers 30% of the earth’s surface. It supports all of our ecosystems, from farms and grazing land to rainforests and the vast northern taiga. It contains more carbon than the earth’s atmosphere and all its plant biomass combined. The amount of fresh water in soil that’s available to grow plants is 100 times greater than all the world’s lakes, rivers, and wetlands put together. Soil connects the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. And 95% of the food we eat is dependent on it, making soil the single most important resource for agriculture to feed the world.
Yet despite soil’s importance, we are only just beginning to understand the science of it: its astonishing biodiversity when healthy and the role it plays not just in the production of food but in maintaining clean fresh water, recharging groundwater reserves, and collecting and storing the carbon that would otherwise keep warming the planet.
The Recipe for Healthy Soil
Soil is typically made up mostly of inorganic matter—around 47% minerals, 24% air, and 25% water. The remaining 3% to 7%, depending on the type of soil, is made up of so-called soil organic matter (SOM), which holds the key to healthy soil. SOM helps create a robust soil structure and protects against erosion. It’s what regulates and stores water, air, and nutrients and sequesters carbon. And it supplies the resources needed by the microbes and other organisms that increase the nutrients available to plants.
SOM is made up of four distinct elements: fresh residues, resistant organic matter, humus, and the living organisms that make up soil’s biome. The first two are mostly the feedstock for the creation of humus as well as a food for the soil organisms. It’s the second two that really determine soil’s role in feeding and sustaining the crops we grow. Aside from the living organisms, humus is the most vital component of fertile soil, as it contains most of the nutrients that feed plants, stores water, and stabilizes structure.
Six key ingredients determine the buildup of SOM and hence the ability of soil to keep the three cycles going. These include sufficient moisture, the right soil texture and structure, a healthy microbiome, continuous buildup of biomass, the right pH, and the right temperature. (See Exhibit 1.)
If these factors are out of balance, soil simply cannot develop the SOM needed to sustain strong and healthy plant life. Deserts, for example, don’t get enough rain, so they can’t sustain the vegetation required to maintain the carbon cycle that would enable them to build a healthy layer of SOM. By contrast, the excess water in peatlands negatively impacts the soil biome and pH levels, hindering the development of healthy soil layers for the productive cultivation of crops but boosting its important role as a carbon sink.
(Source: BCG)
Healthy soil doesn’t just lead to higher crop yields and reduced erosion. It also enables less use of synthetic fertilizer, less need for mechanical irrigation, and greater yield resilience in the face of flooding or droughts, through its ability to better take up and store water. Its capacity to capture and sequester atmospheric carbon can also significantly reduce the impact of emissions.
King's Landing TerraBoost - Excellent soil health regulator
Thankfully, an innovative technology from Tsinghua University China is coming! King's Landing TerraBoost, acts as an excellent soil health regulator suitable for all varieties of soil.
Based on soil reconstruction and nutrient superconducting technology, King's Landing TerraBoost provides outstanding function to improve the growth of crops and increases the yields.
King's Landing TerraBoost can loosen the soil and improve soil respiration in one day.
Promote vigorous growth of roots in 7 days
Reduce the saline-alkali pressure of soil quickly
Improve water and fertility retention ability quickly
Increase the resistance to adversity
Recover the crops from damage from adverse condition
Improve the yields of crops growing in saline-alkali condition significantly
Enhance the growth for both vegetative stage and reproductive stage
King's Landing TerraBoost
Makes soil healthier
Makes planting simper
Makes crops stronger
KING'S LANDING SoilVitalizer - A granular soil activator that revitalizes the soil and keeps the soil healthy
KING'S LANDING SoilVitalizer is a granular soil activator that revitalizes the soil and keeps it healthy, to meet the high requirements of modern intensive planting.
First, the Silicon-based pH bidirectional buffer technology contained in KING'S LANDING SoilVitalizer can stabilize the soil pH value at around 7-8, effectively alleviating the soil acidification problem caused by excessive application of acidic fertilizers.
Thereby protecting the health of the root system; greatly reducing the incidence of soil-borne diseases such as various wilt, root rot and nematode disease; and at the same time alleviating the soil compaction problem induced by soil acidification.
Second, KING'S LANDING SoilVitalizer granule can expand rapidly when exposed to water. And it has large specific surface area to make it effectively absorbing excessive salt and heavy metals in the soil, reducing the soil EC value, and avoiding the damage of high EC value to the root system; at the same time, this adsorption capacity can slow-release the fast-acting fertilizers applied in the soil, protect the roots from burning, and continuously release nutrients.
Third, KING'S LANDING SoilVitalizer can significantly increase the Zeta potential of the soil, activate soil activity, greatly increase the cation exchange capacity of the soil, and improve the soil's fertilizer retention ability.
At the same time, KING'S LANDING SoilVitalizer contains trace elements such as silicon, calcium, magnesium, and iron, and a unique slow-release process of small molecule mineral-sourced fulvic acid, which allows the fulvic acid to be slow-released for up to 30 days, continuously activates nutrient ions, and keeps the root system strong and durable.
More information
To learn more about King's Landing TerraBoost and KING'S LANDING SoilVitalizer, please see the YouTube video.
King's Landing TerraBoost, the master of soil reconstruction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YGgbc6JmDc
King’s Landing TerraBoost Product effect feedback:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmuhRefontA
KING'S LANDING SoilVitalizer, A Soil Activator that Revitalizes the Soil and Keeps the Soil Healthy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ31J36aGMg
King's Landing SoilVitalizer Effect of Saline alkali:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w46CfECjaEM
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