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Categories: Pedology Soil Land management Articles needing additional references from January 2008 Wikipedia articles incorporating text from public domain works of the United States Government |
Summary Of: Soil structureSoil structure has a major influence on water and air movement... Soil structure describes the arrangement of the solid parts of the soil and of the pore space... Traditional agricultural practices have generally caused changes in soil structure which have compromised aggregation and porosity... Soil structure will decline under most forms of cultivation... Soil structure decline under irrigation is usually related to the breakdown of aggregates and dispersion of clay... The benefits of increasing soil structure to the growth of plants... Soil structure has been widely studied and is well represented in the literature... Soil structure is considered to be good or bad in terms of its application... Soil structure can be manipulated by management practices... Degradation of soil structure due to coalescence of aggregates in no... ways to improve soil structure and improve the productivity of irrigated agriculture...Encyclodia Page On: Soil structure
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