The Importance of Organic Matter &Effect of Management Practices on Soil Organic Matter

The importance of organic matter in soil is not a recent discovery. Soil fertility in early agricultural systems was based on the recycling of organic wastes. The addition of decomposed organic materials improved plant growth.
Besides being a source of nutrients for the plant, organic matter has a fundamental effect on the physical properties of the soil (water-holding capacity) and determines to a large degree such properties as the exchange capacity and buffering properties. These properties are of great importance, not only in controlling the uptake of nutrients by the plant and their retention in the soil, but also in suppressing the deleterious effect of soil acidity.

Effect of Management Practices on Soil Organic Matter.

Cultivation of soils usually causes a decrease in the organic matter content. For most soils, a high level of organic matter is maintained only by grass species. Conventional sources of applied organic matter such as farm manures or crop residues are not normally used due to lack of availability or prohibitive cost.

Non-conventional Sources of Organic Matter:
Humate products for agricultural use are produced through mineral sand mining. The end product contains a majority of organic material (concentrated humic acid ) mixed with smaller amounts of mineral matter.
Humate concentrates provide many of the advantages of conventional organic matter sources with less handling problems, especially in situations where there is no feasible alternative to purchasing additional supplies of humus.
They have been demonstrated to have favourable effects on tissue nutrient balance, fertilizer uptake, top and root growth, crop yield and quality for a large variety of field and horticultural plants.
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The importance of organic matter in soil cannot be over emphasized. Soil life depends in large part on organic matter.
The bacterial, earthworms, fungi, actinomycetes and nematodes all in some way depend on organic matter.