Evaluating the economic and social impact of soil microbes

Harpinder Sandhu; Vadakattu Gupta; Stephen Wratten

doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9479-7_11

Evaluating the economic and social impact of soil microbes

Harpinder Sandhu, Vadakattu Gupta, Stephen Wratten

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Developments in agriculture have been very successful in producing sufficient amounts of food to meet the growing demand by human population in the twentieth century. This was possible due to breakthroughs in the development of high yielding cultivars and the combined efforts of agricultural research and public policy to support high input-based farming in different parts of the world. The 'Green Revolution' yielded desired outcomes due to agricultural intensification, accomplished through the use of input-responsive plant cultivars, increased chemical use in the form of fertilisers and chemical based plant protection measures. These modern technologies are practised in agro-ecosystems which are the largest managed ecosystems on earth and comprise 1.5 billion hectares of cropping area and about 3.5 billion hectares of pasture land area (FAO) 2009

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Soil Microbiology and Sustainable Crop Production
Publisher	Springer
Pages	399-417
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Print)	9789048194780
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9479-7_11
Publication status	Published - 2010

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