Arable Soil for Future Generations bionic μsoil is a most powerful organic soil enhancer and fertilizer system to combat land degradation and desertification, which at the same time helps to suppress epidemic diseases deriving from biological waste streams recycle scarce plant nutrients in a sustainable way reduce GHG through carbon sequestration and reduced emissions conserve water resources and quality μsoil
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Arable Soil for Future Generations
bionic µsoil is a most powerful organic soil enhancer and fertilizer system to
combat land degradation and desertification,
which at the same time helps to
suppress epidemic diseases deriving from biological waste streams
recycle scarce plant nutrients in a sustainable way
reduce GHG through carbon sequestration and reduced emissions
conserve water resources and quality
µsoil
The widely neglected importance of healthy soil
Topsoil facts
• it takes nature approximately 500 years to create one inch
• 6-10 inches are desirable, that’s where all annual crops grow
• Losses from erosion alone due to inappropriate agricultural practices: up to 150 tons/acre/year (NRCS-USDA)
• At current loss rates only 60 yrs of topsoil are left
Topsoil functions
• Water storage and management
• Nutrient and Carbon balancing
• Source of micronutrients and microorganisms
• Carbon sink
• Environmental pollution control
• Plays a fundamental role in climate change and water preservation
“Soil health is the continued capacity of soil to function as a vital living ecosystem that sustainsplants, animals and humans.” (NRCS-USDA)
Topsoil is the upper layer of soil usually extending between 5 and 25 cm. It has the highest concentration of organic matter and microorganisms and hosts most of the Earth’s biological soil activity.
Soil is the primary interface between all vital resource domains defining the Earth’s carrying capacity for mankind. To perform that function it has to be kept healthy.
The main exchange for:Carbon cycleNutrient cycleWater cycleMicrobes regeneration(Detoxification)
Soil Life(microbes)
Arable land is in short supply globally
• Limited public awareness for a most critical problem• Carrying capacity of planet earth requires continuous expansion of food production• Resources like air, water, soil formerly considered indefinite are now limited• Inorganic nutrient sources
• The UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)• Signed 1994, 193 parties• Is a 10-year strategy framework until 2018 adequate to the problems?
• Scarcity of arable land is on the rise since the mid-1990ties with farm productivity levelling
Land availability balance:
Soil reclamation is inevitable to counter pressure on food and non-food farm production.
Increasing Losses Diminishing Gains
Infrastructure, urbanization Clearing of virgin forests
What the UN says (also see original text next slide)
• Land is a finite resource. Only 1/32 of planet Earth represents arable land.
• 52% of agriculture land is at least moderately affected by soil degradation.
• 12 million ha are lost per year due to drought and desertification.
• Arable land losses estimated at 30-35 times of historical rates.
• Land degradation undermines water availability and quality.
• Losses in food production due to land degradation may combine with those from depressed yields from effects of climate change reaching up to 50% by 2050 in some countries.
• Agriculture is currently responsible for 13% of GHG emissions.
Bold measures are urgently required to reverse losses
• Protection of still functional soils• Conservation of good farm land• Recovery of already depleted farm land
• End top soil losses to erosion (25 billion tons worldwide every year!)
• Maintain natural soil fertility by establishing sustainable nutrient cycles
• Reclamation of lost farmland• Former mining and extractive industry use• Former urban, infrastructure and industrial uses• Former farmland lost to desertification
• Erosion• Salination
• Agro-ecosystems demand active human interference for stability• We have to recognize and accept our duty
Bionic µsoil can make a huge difference• µsoil can play a major role reversing the current trend
• µsoil is a one-step soil enhancer and 100% organic NPK fertilizer• puts carbon (organic matter) back into the soil• rebuilds a sustainable nutrient and humidity storage capacity• makes nutrients available long term for plant-root uptake as needed• No damaging leaching of surplus mineral fertilizers
• µsoil builds on Bionic’s unique µchar product• µchar activated with a selected mixture of beneficial micro organisms• further processed with the patented Bio-Elite organic NPK fertilizer production method*• adding animal manure and 100% organic biomass waste• mixing the combination with additional micro organisms and fungi• fermenting the product for 30-40 days until fully sanitized
• µsoil is a modern, high-tech successor of the ancient Terra Pretafound in the Amazonian forest by archeologists
5 times faster growth of biomassup to 4 crop seasons under irrigation
Erodedsoil
Stabilization of the soil with µsoil and changed agronomic practices
No additional syntheticfertilizer required
Even the most eroded soils can be transferred back to arable land and then continuously improved to high value farmland thus reactivating land resources, preserving the environment reduce carbon footprint and create value and sustainable farm revenues.
Soil remediation at Welzow, Germany, an open pit coal mine
Starting from no vegetation at all the reclamation process started by deep plowing the organic fertilizer product into the ground
Only 18 months later very strong vegetation has developed. Soil testing reveals the development of a new topsoil layer of at least 25 cm. A new field is ready for a first crop season.
• 5 times faster growth of biomass• up to 4 crop seasons under irrigation
Erodedsoil
Continuous improvement of land from partially eroded soil back to valuable farmland saves resources, preserves the environment, supports a small carbon footprint and increases value and long term returns.
End continuous degradation from conventional farming methods
Stabilization of soil conditionswith µsoil and agronomic practices
• The carbon cycle• More carbon in the soil = less carbon in the atmosphere
• Nutrient uptake regulated again by the plants themselves• Organic nutrient supply = the plant decides how much and when• All plant pathways remain activated
• Easy availability of nutrients from synthetic fertilizers leave important pathways inactive• Little training for stress conditions like drought or water logging
• Micronutrient• Controlled availability
• Soil microbes• Higher activity and availability than in most virgin soils
• Water management• Storage capacity increase by 30-50% without any water logging effects• Gradual release when needed by plants