Chapter 5 - Soil Health
5.1 Litmus paper for soil pH and liming
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5.2 Cover crops to prevent bare soil and erosion
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5.3 Shallow trenching to prevent erosion, conserve water
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5.4 Contour farming on hillsides to prevent erosion
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5.5 Living grass barriers to prevent erosion
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5.6 Cover crop during the transition from dry to wet seasons
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5.7 Vetch in the dry season to prevent erosion
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5.8 Adding organic nutrients to home gradens
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5.9 Covering manure from rain during storage
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5.10 Livestock sheds and collecting urine to add to manure
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5.11 Compost improvement
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5.12 Microdosing of manure
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5.13 Treating seeds with urine
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5.14 An indigenous biofertilizer (Panchakavya)
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5.15 Using worms to create manure (vermicomposting)
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5.16 Synthetic nitrogen fertilizer raises yields
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5.17 Microdosing of synthetic fertilizers
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5.18 Split application of synthetic fertilizer
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5.19 The number of applications of fertilizer is based on soil type
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5.20 Leaf colour change to diagnose fertilizer needs
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5.21 Legumes produce organize nitrogen fertilizer
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5.22 Legumes reduce need to purchase nitrogen fertilizer
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5.23 How to diagnose whether legumes are producing fertilizer
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5.24 Rhizobia bacteria inoculants
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5.25 Crop rotation with a legume (bean) reduces fertilizer needs
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5.26 Crop rotation with a pulse (lentil) reduces fertilizer needs
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5.27 Pigeon pea for degraded soils
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5.28 Azolla-Anabaena symbiosis in rice paddies
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