We, Soil Fertility Institute (SFI) are a Pune based organization. We have successfully developed SFI soil conditioner which improves soil organic carbon in 100 days. SFI soil conditioner is based on soil biodiversity, sun energy and ancient agricultural / soil conditioning techniques. It improves physical, biological and chemical properties of soil in very short time. The aim of developing this has been to target the improvement of soil and not just focus on enhanced yield of crop.

We at SFI have clearly understood the root cause and therefore focused our energy and efforts on improving the soil condition, that too using traditional methods.

Agriculture today is effaced with lot of environmental concerns like pollution, contamination, soil erosion, pesticide residues, lack of organic carbon, or plain out of too intensive agriculture. Farmers are continually dependent on more and more of inputs, thus, making the farming financially demanding and ecologically draining. From last 50 years more focus was on crop management than maintaining soil health. And so, soil conditioning is one of the biggest concerns of agriculture presently.

Some of the important issues that farmers are facing about soil are

Soil is made of air, water, minerals and organic material and is one of the most important natural resources on earth. Most life on earth depends on soil. Soil is the basis of all production systems in agriculture, forestry and fisheries. Soil is habitat for organisms above ground and underwater. Greater microbial diversity increases soil organic carbon content and finally improves soil fertility.

Organic Carbon

How to improve the fertility of the soil?

Organic Carbon & Its Importance

Soil organic carbon is a measurable component of soil organic matter. Soil organic carbon (SOC) is a major contributor to overall soil health, agriculture, climate change, and food solutions.

SOIL BIODIVERSITY

SOIL BIODIVERSITY is the factory of life that improves

Soil fertility (structuring the soil, improves entry and storage of water, plant nutrition, breakdown of organic matter)

Reduces

Soil degradation(erosion, contamination, salinisation)

Soil biodiversity is important for

Ancient Indian technologies for soil conditioning based on biodiversity

Count of bacteria and biodiversity in SFI technology is many times better than all above ancient technologies.

Microbes

Importance of Microbes for Soil:

The microbial biomass consists of mostly bacteria and fungi which decompose crop residue and organic matter in soil. This process releases nutrient in to the soil that are available for plant uptake. When microorganisms die these nutrients are release in the forms that can be taken up by plants.

The microbial cell is made up of several elements such as Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Phosphorus, Potassium, Calcium, Magnesium and iron.

It improves physical, biological and chemical properties of soil in very short time.

High increase in count of microbes in the soil increases organic carbon of the soil.

Requirement of bacteria for fertile soil

Importance of Jaggery in Soil Conditioning

Application of fermented solution of jaggary with water reduces the pH of the Soil.

Jaggary is also used for multiplication of microbial count in the soil.

Jaggary contains around 10 -12 types of micronutrients which are also beneficial to improve the health of the soil. Such as ….