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This book gathers the latest insights into soil health and its sustainability, providing an up-to-date overview of the various aspects of soil quality and fertility management, e.g., plant-microbe interactions to maintain soil health; and the use of algal, fungal and bacterial fertilizers and earthworms for sustainable soil health and agricultural production.

It first discusses the past, present, and future scenarios of soil health, and then explores factors influencing soil health, as well as the consequences of degradation of soil health for sustainable agriculture. Lastly it highlights solutions to improve and maintain soil health so as to achieve greater productivity and sustainability without damaging the soil system or the environment.

Soil health is defined as the capacity of a soil to function within ecosystem frontiers, to sustain biological productivity, to maintain environmental quality and to promote plant, animal and human health. Soil health is established through the interactions of physical, chemical and biological properties, e.g., soil texture, soil structure, and soil organisms. Healthy soil provides adequate levels of macro- and micronutrients to plants and contains sufficient populations of soil microorganisms. As a result of the increasingly intensified agriculture over the past few decades, soils are now showing symptoms of exhaustion and stagnating or declining crop yields. Exploring these developments as well as possible solutions based on holistic and sustainable approaches, this book is a valuable resource for researchers in the area of soil and environmental science, agronomy, agriculture, as well as students in the field of botany, ecology and microbiology.

Soil Health

1 Soil health: Past history and future perspective

Bhoopander Giri and Ajit Varma

Department of Botany

Swami Shraddhnanand College

University of Delhi

Delhi

Email: [email protected]

2 Organic farming in relation to soil health

Prof Nguy n Hu

Professor of Environmental and Soil Chemistry

Department of Plant and Soil Sciences

University of Hawaii at Manoa

[email protected]

3 Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria: A Booster for Ameliorating Soil Health and Agriculture Production

Dr. S. C. Shankhdhar
Senior Research Officer/Associate Professor
Department of Plant Physiology
College of Basic Sciences & Humanities
G.B.Pant University of Agriculture & Technology
Pantnagar-263145 (Uttarakhand), India
Contact No. 91-9412864897

[email protected]

4 Vermicomposting and soil health

 Dr. Ranjit Chatterjee

Professor in Vegetable and Spice crops

UBKV, Pundibari, West Bengal 

Email: [email protected]

 

5 Impact of agricultural practice on soil health 

Dr. Elizabeth Temitope Alori

Lecturer at Landmark University
Omu-Aran, Kwara State,Nigeria.

Email: [email protected]

6 Biochar for maintaining soil health

Dr Adekiya Aruna Olasekan

Address: College of Agricultural Sciences,

Landmark University, PMB 1001, Omu-Aran, Kwara State Nigeria

Email: [email protected]

7 Wild plants from coastal habitats as a potential resource for soil remediation.

 Prof. Gederts Ievinsh

Department of Plant Physiology

Faculty of Biology, University of Latvia

1 Jelgavas Str., Riga LV-1004, Latvia.

E-amil: [email protected]

 

8 Soil Health and Foliar Fertilisers

Dr Apostolos Papadopoulos

University of Lincoln

Riseholme College, Riseholme Park

Lincoln, LN2 2LG

United Kingdom

Email: [email protected]

 

9 Arthropods and Soil Health.

Dr Thomas W. Culliney

USDA-APHIS, PPQ
Center for Plant Health Science and Technology
Plant Epidemiology and Risk Analysis Laboratory
1730 Varsity Drive, Suite 300
Raleigh, NC 27606 U.S.A.
(919) 855-7506; (919) 855-7595 (Fax).

E-mail [email protected]

 

10 Role of soil microbes in maintaining soil health and sustainable agriculture production

Dr (Mrs) Neemisha

Assistant Microbiologist (Soil Science)

Department of Soil Science 

Punjab Agricultural University

Ludhiana 141004

Punjab, India

Email: [email protected]

11 Abiotic and Biotic Factors Influencing Soil Health

Dr. K.S. Anil Kumar

Principal Scientist

ICAR- National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning,

Regional Centre,

Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka

India

Email: [email protected] Mob:  7406376178

12 Assessment of Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi as soil health indicators

Dr. Manju M Gupta
Associate Professor in Botany

Sri Aurobindo College

University of Delhi

Delhi-17 India

Email: [email protected]

 

13 Organic farming: Myth or reality for sustainable production

Manisha Rani Ph. D.

Assistant Rofessor

Department of Soil Science

College of Agriculture

G.B.P.U.A.&T., Pantnagar (263145)

U. S. Nagar (Uttarakhnad)- India

[email protected]

14 Role of rhizobiome in maintaining soil fertility and crop production

Dr. M.P. RAGHAVENDRA 

Assistant Professor 
Postgraduate Department of Microbiology
Maharani's Science College for Women (Affiliated to University of Mysore)
Jhansi Laxmi Bai Road
Mysore - 570 005
Karnataka, India
Email: [email protected] 

15 Role of soil microorganisms in soil health and sustainable agriculture

Imitiaz Ahmad

Imtiaz Ahmad, Ph. D.

Department of Entomology, 

Penn State University, PA, USA

Email: [email protected]

16 Green manuring and its role in soil health management

 *¹Sanjeev kumar and Premasis Sukul²

 *¹School of Agriculture, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar 144 411, Punjab, India    

²Scholl of Agriculture, Department of Soil Science, Lovely Professional University,

Jalandhar 144 411, Punjab, India

E-mail: [email protected]

17 Seaweeds: as soil health boosters

Dr Inder Deep Kaur

Department of Botany

Khalsa College of University

University of Delhi, Delhi

[email protected]

18 Soil salinity and its impact on soil health and crop production.

 Dr Binay Kumar Singh

Senior Scientist

ICAR-IIAB, Ranchi

Email: [email protected]

19 Soil Health Restoration for profitable crop production and better soil fertility

 Dr A.K.Pant

Senior Research Officer/Associate Professor

Deptt. of Soil Science

College of Agriculture

G.B.Pant Univ. of Ag. and Technology, Pantnagar

Distt. U.S.Nagar (UTTARAKHAND)

Email: [email protected]

 

20 Farm Yard Manure and soil health

 Vijay Pooniya and Dinesh Kumar

Principal Scientist, Division of Agronomy,
ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi-110012, INDIA

E-mail:     [email protected]

21 Impact of chemical fertilisers and pesticides on soil health

Dr. Uday Pratap Shahi

Associate Professor, Soil Science
College of Agriculture
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture & Technology, Modipuram, Meerut-250110, U.P., India

Email: [email protected]

22 Fertilizers and pesticides: their impact on soil health and environment

Dr Pooja Baweja

Department of Botany

Maitreyi College; Chanakya Puri

University of Delhi

New Delhi - 110021

E-mail: [email protected]

23 Impact of heavy metals on soil health: a microbiological perspective"

Dr Rajeshwari Sinha

Department of Chemistry

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Independent Researcher,

New Delhi, India

^{[email protected]}

+91-9990187023

https://www.rajeshwarisinha.net

 

24 Maintaining soil health by eco-friendly approaches

 Dr. Richa Raghuwanshi

Associate Professor of Botany, MMV

Banaras Hindu University 

Varanasi-221005 

UP, INDIA

E-Mail: [email protected]