88 results about "Soil health" patented technology

The present invention relates to eco-friendly compositions and methods for providing plant growth enhancing formulations comprising mixtures of microbial isolates. The microbial consortium is developed for customized solution of soil health related problem such as with plant growth promoting properties including root and shoot length elongation, early and high germination rate, high yield, decrease in soil pathogenic load and increase soil micro and macronutrient status. These specifically designed polymicrobial formulations would further provide protection against plant pathogens lowering the need for nitrogen containing fertilizers, solubilize minerals, protect plants against pathogens, and make available to the plant valuable nutrients, such as phosphate, thus reducing and eliminating the need for using chemical fertilizers and chemical pesticides.

The invention relates to a method for repairing heavy metal contaminated soil in situ by adopting multifunctional biological charcoal. According to the technical scheme, the multifunctional biological charcoal is prepared from biological waste such as straws and sawdust, the surface of the multifunctional biological charcoal is provided with multiple surface functional groups and rich enterable micropores, the heavy metal contaminated soil of which the relative humidity is 60-90% is turned over and mixed with the multifunctional biological charcoal of which the granularity is 0.074-0.178mm, the turnover mixing depth is 5-30cm, and the soil can be repaired after being aged for 20-30 days. The mass ratio of the multifunctional biological charcoal to the heavy metal contaminated soil is (0.1-5) to 100. The multifunctional biological charcoal serving as a soil additive in the in-situ repairing process can effectively fix heavy metals in the soil, improve the ecological environment, supplement organic charcoal, protect the soil health, reduce the toxicity of the contaminated soil and restore the productivity of the soil; and the method is also applicable to engineering repairing of water bodies and solid matrixes.

A method of cultivating crops and cover-crops, interactively and sustainably, using a novel hot water apparatus. The apparatus enables the farmer to prepare a soil bed for planting with a no-till method that: controls nematodes and soil pathogens, promotes nutrient cycling of cover crops and organic materials, kills weeds and weed seeds, and cultivates healthy soil micro flora. A low-pressure (5-60 psi) hot water (120-209 F) delivery system, characterized by a flexible mat which evenly distributes water to the underside of the mat where an attached layer of material with a high water holding capacity saturates and conducts scalding water onto the weeds. A hot water recirculation and heat exchange system reduces water demands while maintaining a high thermo charge in the mat. After soil cools, plants or seeds are planted directly through the mulch of dead weeds or cover crop. Inoculation of soil of microbes promote soil health and crop production.

Biochar is provided that is treated to have certain chemical and physical properties found to have the highest impact on plant growth and / or soil health. In particular, the following physical and / or chemical properties, among others, of a biochar have been identified as critical properties to control for in the selection of biomass feedstock, pyrolysis conditions, and / or enhancing treatment to increase biochar performance: (i) bulk density (ii) impregnation capacity; (iii) particle size distribution; (iv) solid particle density; (v) surface area; (vi) porosity; (vii) total porosity; (viii) ratio of macroporosity to total porosity (ix) content of residual organic compounds; (x) content of volatile organic compounds; (xii) ash content; (xiii) water holding capacity; (xiv) water retention capabilities; (xv) levels of dioxins and other potentially hazardous byproducts of pyrolysis; and (xvi) pH. Treatment can modify and preferably increase hydrophilicity / decrease hydrophobicity, remove dioxins from the raw biochar, modify electrical conductivity and / or surface charge, modify cation exchange capacity and modify anion exchange capacity, among other things.

The invention discloses a soil heavy metal hierarchy health risk assessment method based on land utilization mode. The hierarchy health risk assessment method comprises the following steps: arranging sampling points on a land utilization situation map, and acquiring the total content and the chemical form composition of heavy metal elements in appointed soil; calculating the contents of bio-available heavy metals, potential bio-available heavy metals and non-bioavailable heavy metals in soil; calculating the amounts of an orally-taken soil non-carcinogenic demasking reagent, a skin-taken soil non-carcinogenic demasking reagent and an breathing-taken soil particle non-carcinogenic demasking reagent; calculating the non-carcinogenic risk factors of the bio-available contents and the potential bio-available contents in soil; drawing a non-carcinogenic risk factor map of bio-available and potential bioavailable contents in soil, and performing hierarchy division to generate a soil heavy metal hierarchy health risk map. The soil heavy metal hierarchy health risk assessment method can provide scientific references for soil health risk management decision making.

The invention discloses a method for soil testing and formulated fertilization of tomatoes. The method comprises the steps of firstly, calculating the usage amount of a fertilizer required by a production process of the tomatoes in season in two steps: step one, measuring the content of soil nutrients to ensure that the content of main soil nutrients can be adjusted to a fertilizer usage amount required by a health value, and step two, determining the nutrient amount required to be absorbed by the tomatoes of each season according to a target yield and a specific yield vegetable fertilizer absorption amount of the tomatoes, wherein the sum of the fertilizer usage amount and the nutrient amount is the fertilizer usage amount required to be applied to soil in the cultivation process of the tomatoes of each season; secondly, determining the ratio of a base fertilizer to an additional fertilizer in top dressing period and in the total fertilization amount; and finally, determining a fertilizer formula and a fertilization method for fertilizing the tomatoes in season. Compared with a conventional fertilization method, the novel soil testing and formulated fertilization method is more accurate and reliable, simpler and easier, improves the utilization ratio of fertilizers, saves the fertilizers, increases the fertility of soil, reduces soil pollution caused by improper fertilization and keeps the soil healthy.

The invention discloses a special high-performance compound fertilizer for woody flowers and plants. The high-performance compound fertilizer is prepared from the following raw materials: poultry manure, roots and stems of leguminous plants, bentonite, steel slag, coal ash, ammonium polyphosphate, ammonium hydrogen phosphate, urea, potassium chloride, calcium nitrate, rare earth salts, zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, borax, humic acid, lignin, sodium potassium tartrate, amino acid, sucrose, glucose, ethylene diamine tetra-acetic acid, acrylic resin and a microbial agent. The special high-performance compound fertilizer for woody flowers and plants disclosed by the invention has the advantages of high utilization rate, small amount and balanced nutrients; after the compound fertilizer is applied to the woody flowers and plants, the flowers and plants are healthy and strong and has green leaves, bright-colored flowers and long flowering period and the properties of soil can be improved so that the soil has healthy development.

An alpine grassland soil health evaluation method based on physical, biological and chemical composite indicators evaluates the alpine grassland degeneration degree by aid of a grassland degeneration index on the basis of visualized vegetation indicators. The grassland degeneration index (GDI) is composed of the integer bit and an effective figure at the bit after the decimal point, and the structure is that GDI=(100-C)*28%+(100-P)*39%+(70-E)*26%+(25-H)*7%, wherein C indicates the cover degree, P indicates grass yield proportion, E indicates edible forage grass proportion, and H indicates edible forage grass height. The GDI index can be calculated simply by measuring the cover degree, the biomass, the edible forage grass amount and the edible forage grass height of a plant community in practical application. The alpine grassland degeneration degree is judged according o the DGI index: when the DGI index is smaller than 13.9, the grassland is not degraded; when the DGI index ranges from 13.9 to 33.5, the grassland is slightly degraded; when the DGI index ranges from 33.5 to 52.4, the grassland is moderately degraded; when the DGI index ranges from 52.4 to 68.4, the grassland is seriously degraded; and when the DGI index is larger than 68.4, the grassland is extremely degraded. The alpine grassland soil health evaluation method can completely display the grassland degeneration condition information and can qualitatively and quantitatively evaluate the alpine grassland degeneration degree.

The invention provides a preparation method of a ferment fertilizer. The preparation method comprises the following steps: (1) pretreatment of materials: selecting vegetable leaves and / or melons and fruits as the materials, cleaning the materials, and draining redundant water; (2) pulping: mixing the materials and water according to a proportion, pulping and mixing uniformly to prepare slurry; (3)fermentation: adding brown sugar with the weight being 9-15% of the total weight of the slurry and a ferment bacterium agent with the weight being 0.1% of the total weight of the slurry, uniformly mixing, wherein the fermentation temperature is 25-35 DEG C, the pH value is less than 4 and the fermentation time is 3 months, thereby obtaining a ferment fermentation liquid; and (4) filtration: usinga 0.2micron filtering core to filter the ferment fermentation liquid in the step (3), thereby obtaining ferment fertilizer stoste. The preparation method provided by the invention has the beneficialeffects that the ferment fertilizer can remedy the soil and reduce the soil health by practice, so that the disease and pest damage can be greatly reduced; secondly, due to no use of chemical substances such as fertilizers, pesticides, weed killers and swelling agents and the like, secondary pollution to the soil and crops is reduced, so that the disease and pest damage is greatly reduced.

The invention relates to a composition which is suitable for use as a soil conditioner or fertilizer. The soil health rejuvenator in the present invention is developed to provide soil conditioning which increases organic matter content of the soil and develop immunity in plants to fend off pest and disease. Moreover, the invention developed herein also reduces the harmful effect of chemicals accumulated in soil after prolonged exposure of chemical fertilizers in soil, improving soil physico-chemical properties. The invention provides the solution of sustainable agriculture by reducing the health hazardous caused by the extensive use of chemical amendments.

The present invention generally relates to agriculture and, more specifically, to biomass compositions and methods for decreasing bruising, increasing plant health, increasing soil health, increasing sweetness in fruits and / or decreasing needle-drop in conifer species.

The present invention relates to a method of assessing the soil quality and health of mined and un-mined lands. The present invention further relates to a method of assessing ecosystem health and soil restoration efforts. The method employs a multi-prong approach combining DNA fingerprinting and in-depth pyrosequencing of soil microorganisms that are responsible for maintaining soil fertility and productivity. The method incorporates assessing the indigenous bacterial community structure data derived from PCR-DGGE analysis and 165 rRNA gene clone libraries, and then further identification of those microorganisms that are known to promote soil health by soil metagenome analysis. Disparity between un-mined and post-mined soils are comprehensively studied via multivariate statistical analyses on the polyphasic dataset.

The invention relates to the field of soil health-care agents, in particular to a saline-alkali soil health-care agent and a preparation method thereof. The soil health-care agent is prepared from, by weight, 10-15 parts of leguminous green manure, 3-5 parts of sludge, 20-30 parts of saw dust, 5-15 parts of seafood powder, 20-30 parts of flyash and 3-5 parts of citric acid powder. According to the soil health-care agent, the components in use are waste basically, waste is turned into wealth, and reasonable utilization of resources is facilitated; secondly, the situation that calcium ions for alkali-affected soil come from traditional gypsum, phosphogypsum and the like is abandoned for the soil health-care agent, calcium ions can be obtained by means of seafood powder and citric acid powder under the action of water in soil, calcium ions are used for swapping out sodium ions on the surface of soil colloid, and therefore the physical and chemical properties of soil are guaranteed in a health-care mode, soil nutrients are increased, and soil alkalinity is reduced.

The present invention relates to a process of electronic management of organic production including cluster formation of farmers, training of farmers according to organic farming standards, providing organic compliance manual, farm diary, organic bulletin to the farmers, on-farm input management, collection and analysis of soil, providing identity card, soil health card and in ‘in soil culture’, providing NADEP and Cow Pat Pit and demonstrations on on-farm management. Further disclosed is a process of implementation of e-traceability. The information about the day to day activities taken up by all the registered farmers in the fields is collected as per the prescribed format of e-traceability by the cluster in charge on monthly basis and further uploaded in the website. Furthermore provided is a process for setting up an Internal Control System (ICS) for internal inspection of assessment of risk and its management is followed by the approval of decision from an approval committee. This invention relates to a process of external inspection from certification body and finally, certificates are provided to the farmers at the end of each conversion year till the three years.

The present invention relates to a synergistic composition useful as plant and soil health enhancer, comprising urine, neem and garlic, individually or in all possible combinations, with the treatment showing it has the ability to stimulate accumulation of nutrients in the plant biomass, proliferation of plant growth promoting, phosphate solubilizing, abiotic stress tolerant and antagonists towards plant pathogenic fungi, control phytopathogenic fungi in the rhizosphere of plants, and enhances the total phenolic contents of the plants.

The invention belongs to the technical field of biological detection, and in particular relates to a method for evaluating soil health through the quantitative PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) analysis of microorganisms. The method of the invention comprises the following steps of: synthesizing a suitable quantitative PCR primer according to microorganism parameters for evaluating the soil health; constructing standard product plasmids of all the parameters and establishing a standard curve; and extracting sample DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) and detecting the copy numbers of all the types of microorganism genes in the samples through quantitative PCR so as to judge the soil health state. The invention integrates various molecular biology methods needed for evaluating the soil health till now into a whole and is rapid, simple, convenient and effective.

The invention relates to microbial fertilizer as well as a preparation method and application thereof, and belongs to the field of comprehensive control of plant soil-borne diseases. The microbial fertilizer comprises a microbial agent, a nutritional agent, a carrier and water; the microbial agent comprises bacillus laterosporus, streptomyces jingyangensis, streptomyces lavendulae, streptomyces aureofaciens, bacillus mucilaginosus and trichoderma viride. The microbial fertilizer provided by the invention contains functional microorganisms capable of inhibiting and killing pathogenic bacteria in soil, can effectively prevent and treat tomato canker by a method for inhibiting bacteria by bacteria and can improve the soil healthy environment; germs can be killed from the soil root, various ways of seeds, seedlings, irrigating water, farm tools and the like can be blocked, and pathogen transmission can be avoided; the microbial fertilizer adopts natural microorganisms in the natural world,is green and free of pollution and has long-term effect; the use of pesticide is reduced, the planting cost is reduced and environmental pollution is reduced.

The invention discloses a farmland soil health evaluation system, which comprises a data input unit, a processing unit and a result output unit, wherein the data input unit is communicated with the processing unit and is used for inputting the parameter of the health evaluation index of the soil sample and sending the parameter into the processing unit; the processing unit is communicated with theresult communication unit, is used for evaluating the index parameter according to the received soil sample, obtains the soil health index of the soil sample according to the preset evaluation rule,and sends the soil health index to the result output unit; the result output unit outputs the soil health index of the soil sample in a preset form, wherein the soil sample health evaluation index includes a soil physical index, a soil biological index, a soil chemical index and a soil production index; the production index comprises one or several values in the crop yield, the crop quality and the crop commodity qualification rate.

The present invention is fast soil health quality diagnosing method and test device. Specifically, one water maintaining and air permeable tank is separated with a watertight partitioning board intotwo chambers filled with water saturated fine quartzite; one other earthworm escaping tank separated with a watertight partitioning board into two chambers filled with clean soil and polluted soil separately is set on the first tank with the two partitioning boards are aligned vertically; the upper tank is maintained in the moisture level the same as that in field while the lower tank is maintained in water saturation state; earthworms are set to the two chambers in the upper tank; and after earthworms go into soil, the device is set in rest lighted place at 15-25 deg.c. The present invention is simple, and has high sensitivity in detecting the sensitivity of soil animal to the pollution degree of soil.

The invention discloses a permeable soil conditioner. The soil conditioner comprises, by weight, 30-50% of sucrose fatty acid ester, 5-10% of propylene glycol, 1-3% of polyaspartic acid and the balance water. The conditioner can be used for treating saline-alkali soil, eliminating soil hardening and resorting soil health, and can also balance the pH value of the soil, settle heavy metal and improve the safety quality. The soil conditioner is environmentally friendly and completely biodegradable and does not cause secondary pollution while water retention and fertilizer conservation are achieved and the crop growth quality and benefits are improved.

The invention discloses a method for utilizing algondon to extract heavy metals from soil. The method comprises the steps that: a pollution source providing heavy metals is isolated from the land area where restoration is required and the heavy metal content of the soil is out of limits; the pH value of the soil in the land area is regulated and controlled to range from 6 to 7.5 and the algondon is selected as extraction plant, which is then planted in the soil of the land area; the planted algondon extracts the heavy metals in the soil of the land area and the algondon is planted and harvested for cotton in one phase or a plurality of phases without interruption till tests indicate that the content of the heavy metals in the soil meet the safety standards. The method is simple, highly operable and easy to populate as well as has low cost; furthermore, the obtained various parts of the algondon plant crops all can be used and have great economic and social benefits. The method can fundamentally eliminate harms the heavy metals do to soil health, foods safety and the health of human beings and effectively avoid secondary pollution without damaging the ecological environment of the soil.

The invention discloses a multi-source heterogeneous remote sensing big data processing method and device. The method comprises the steps of obtaining first image information at first time; processingthe first image information according to a preset strategy; obtaining first label information and second label information; segmenting the processed first image information according to the first label information and the second label information to obtain second image information; obtaining third image information of the first farmland at the first time; obtaining the soil health grade of the first farmland according to the first soil data information and the second soil data information; judging whether the soil health grade meets a first preset condition or not; and if yes, determining theagricultural yield of the first farmland according to the first crop data information and the second crop data information. The technical problems that due to the fact that the farmland area is largeand the environment is complex and diverse, farmland monitoring is not comprehensive, and the overall environment of the farmland cannot be intelligently monitored are solved.

The invention discloses a method for evaluating the health of cultivated land soil. According to the invention, three sets of dual evaluation index systems, namely an index system of current soil functions and healthy soil functions required by crops, an index system of current soil nutrients and healthy soil nutrients required by crops, and an index system of current crop output of cultivated land and crop output expected by cultivated land users or owners, are adopted; and the problem that an existing soil health evaluation index system mainly reflects physical, chemical and biological indexes of soil and is free of hierarchy and applicability is solved. Soil health evaluation is carried out by adopting the measured ratio R of the dual indexes, namely the deviation degree of the current value C of the indexes / the health value E of the indexes to 1, the method is simple, the evaluation result can directly determine indexes or factors needing soil improvement and conservation, and the method is applied to soil improvement and conservation guidance.

The invention discloses a humic acid water-soluble fertilizer special for beans and a preparation method and application method thereof. The humic acid water-soluble fertilizer special for beans is made from, by weight, 12-18 parts of humic acid, 18-24 parts of diammonium phosphate, 12-16 parts of urea, 6-10 parts of monopotassium phosphate, 3-6 parts of calcium sulfate, 2-3 parts of boron sulfate, 2-3 parts of EDTA (ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid) zinc chelate, 2-3 parts of EDTA iron chelate, and 1-3 parts of gibberellin. The humic acid water-soluble fertilizer special for beans has the advantages that macro elements and trace elements are reasonably matched according to the fertilizer demand law of beans for growth and development; humic acid provides good effect on improving soil, maintaining soil health and the like; nutrition condition of soil is comprehensively considered; utilization rate of the fertilizer can be increased, nutrition can be absorbed faster, and the quality ofbeans is improved.

The present invention relates to a synergistic composition useful as plant and soil health enhancer, comprising urine, neem and garlic, individually or in all possible combinations, with the treatment showing it has the ability to stimulate accumulation of nutrients in the plant biomass, proliferation of plant growth promoting, phosphate solubilizing, abiotic stress tolerant and antagonists towards plant pathogenic fungi, control phytopathogenic fungi in the rhizosphere of plants, and enhances the total phenolic contents of the plants.

The invention discloses a spectrum-based soil health investigation and monitoring method. The method comprises the following steps: S1, collecting a soil sample in a research area and measuring a field spectrum; S2, carrying out spectral data processing and chemical analysis testing; S3, acquiring and preprocessing aviation hyperspectral remote sensing data; S4, extracting soil health parameters and spectral feature information; S5, constructing a soil health parameter remote sensing inversion model; S6, performing aerial hyperspectral data soil health parameter mapping; and S7, carrying out soil health evaluation. The method has the advantages and effects that the hyperspectral remote sensing data are utilized to invert the soil health parameters, the monitoring range is wide, the monitoring speed is high, and large-area soil health investigation and dynamic monitoring can be quickly realized. The hyperspectral remote sensing data are utilized to invert the soil health parameters, the defects that the regional soil health condition is difficult to reflect through traditional sampling chemical analysis, an accurate soil background value is difficult to obtain through a spatial interpolation result, the reliability of an evaluation result is low and the like are overcome, and the result is relatively accurate and reliable.

The invention discloses a farmland soil health evaluation method, which comprises the following steps: selecting a soil evaluation system; Screening soil health indicators in the soil evaluation system by a Delphi method to obtain screened soil health indicators; The original data of the selected soil health indicators were standardized, and the standardized data were analyzed by principal component analysis, and the indicators contained in the principal factors that meet the preset conditions were taken as the second soil health evaluation indicators. Performing stepwise regression analysis on the second soil health evaluation index to obtain a third soil health evaluation index, and constructing a soil health evaluation data set according to the third soil health evaluation index; obtaining soil samples and crop samples, and measuring the index value of the third soil health evaluation index; According to the index value of the third soil health evaluation index, the soil health index and the soil health grade of the soil sample are obtained by a preset scoring rule.

The invention provides a crop rhizosphere soil conditioner and a preparation method and application thereof, and belongs to the technical field of agriculture. The crop rhizosphere soil conditioner contains paenibacillus polymyxa, bacillus licheniformis, bacillus laterosporus, glomus claroideum, rhizophagus intraradices, funneliformis mosseae and claroideoglomus etunicatum. By adopting the crop rhizosphere soil conditioner provided by the invention, the soil rhizosphere microenvironment can be improved, and the problem of poor root growth caused by poor soil environment can be quickly and effectively solved. The crop rhizosphere soil conditioner can also promote the growth of crop root systems and improve the yield and quality. In addition, the crop rhizosphere soil conditioner can improvesoil, make soil health, improve crop resistance and reduce diseases.

A soil-conditioning disc and variable disc assembly system is presented wherein each disc has a series of radially extending geometrically shaped protrusions with intermittent cutting edges and consolidation surfaces, all circumscribing a central hub portion. The disc can be used individually or in multiplicity in a variety of configurations as appropriate for the soil conditions and soil-conditioning task at hand. When the soil-conditioning disc is rolled across the soil surface, a series of consolidated perforations and / or geometric-shaped hollows and restricting channels (depending on the particular disc configuration utilized) are created in the soil. This soil-conditioning disc and assembly simultaneously cuts and incorporates organic material into the soil to increase soil oxygenation for improved soil health, to create depressional water storage, to enhance soil permeability, to reduce evaporation, and to improve surface water distribution by reducing runoff.

The invention discloses a method for carbon increasing fertilizing of soil in an apple orchard. The method comprises soil fertilization before planting, soil fertilization before fructification and soil fertilization after fructification and concretely comprises filling a planting trench with a plant material, animal feces and ground phosphate rock according to a ratio in least one month before apple tree planting, then filling the planting trench with soil, carrying out spreading, sinking and compaction, before an average fruit yield of apple trees is 10kg, applying organic carbon, compound microbial fertilizer and compound fertilizer or mixed fertilizer to the field according to a ratio in autumn every year, and after an average fruit yield of the apple trees is 10kg or more, applying humate and compound fertilizer or mixed fertilizer to the field according to different ratios by three steps every year. The method significantly increases apple orchard soil carbon content, improves soil fertility and soil health status, improves a carbon dioxide concentration and photosynthesis in the orchard, reduces the amount of fertilizer application and frequency of topdressing, and has good ecological and economic benefits.