Development of soil evaluation systems for environment-friendly sustainable crop production

• Overview

  This research team has studied crop productivity, its sustainability and improvement, based on the soil fertility, soil biological property, soil borne plant pathogens, plant parasitic nematodes in Viet Nam, Myanmar, India, Tanzania as well as Japan. The most important key words to increase crop productivity in a sustainable manner are to stimulate carbon and nutrient recycling mediated by biological function through organic amendments, such as compost and green manure. In this study, we will focus local resource-deriving biochar and compost and green manure and establish soil evaluation systems for environment-friendly sustainable crop production that is best adapted to local conditions, through holistic analyses of soil organic matter management, microbial functioning, plant pathogens and nematodes.

  

Members

Soh Sugihara (Institute of Agriculture / Associate Professor)