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How to boost soil vitality

Farmers should stop looking at soil as dirt. It is biodiversity. [courtesy]

Researchers have termed the use of mineral fertilisers an inappropriate cultivation practise that is the main cause of soil degradation.

The high cost of these fertilisers is becoming a burden for local farmers, but now researchers from various institutions have come up with organic fertilisers from the Black Soldier Fly Larvae (BSF).

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