Challenges and opportunities in agriculture

by Dr. Cezar P. Mamaril Senior Consulting Expert of Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) Los Ba ñ os, Laguna I would like to share ...

Global warming and our local environmental problems

Global warming is the increase in the average global temperature. It is a real problem now and we are starting to experience its bad effects...

Earthworms: the most important soil and ecosystem engineers

Earthworms are thought to be the most ancient soil animals having started colonizing terrestrial environments about 600 million years ago (...

The role of mycorrhiza in the mineral nutrition of plants

Mycorrhiza is the association between fungi and the roots of higher plants. The term was introduced by the German scientist A.B. Frank in ...

Relation between properties and age of soils in the Amazon forest

The Amazon Basin is that part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. It has a tropical climate with an annual rai...

Soil excursion to Southern Leyte, Philippines with Prof. R Jahn

On 09 April 2010, we organized a soil excursion to Southern Leyte for selected graduate students pursuing MSc degree in Soil Science at the ...

Hydrogen peroxide is not a good reagent for the removal of soil organic matter

Organic matter (OM) is the most important cementing agent of soil particles. Soils containing high amount of OM (like the dark Leyte soil sh...