Application of Integrated Soil Fertility Approach in the Improvement of Soil Fertility in Semi-Arid Ecology

Abstract

Nutrient level and moisture status are low in major soils of the tropical and semi arid ecology. This ecological region, to buttress the facts of its inadequacy in soil fertility and crop production, and do to these results, the soil suffers from inherent soil or land degradation, overgrazing, lack of adequate use of modern facing technologies, continuous cultivation, annual bush burning, moistures stress, and related erosion problems. Innovational practices in the management of organic matters in semi-arid soil, emphasizes, that farmers should engage in the act of recycling of organic matters, ensure that conservative tillage is operated, practice of irrigation, mulching and Alley farming are encouraged. Additionally, the use of organic and inorganic fertilizer in an integrated programme will play a major role in the solving of low nutrient level associated problems, improvement of soil texture and structure, thus boosters food production in the ecological region.