Interpretation of soil analysis and sustainable fertilization guidelines

Training Certificate issued by INEA Foundation

Goals

• Understand the importance of soil in sustainable agricultural management and soil balance as the basis of agricultural production
• Know the laws that govern soil fertility and soil analysis to detect nutritional imbalances
• Understand the soil texture and its behavior. Measures to improve soil texture for balance.
• Know the soil pH and correct the pH of a soil for its balance
• Detect saline, sodic, and saline-sodic soil, the causes that cause it, and how to correct it
• Know the amount of organic matter in the soil and its influence on it and know how the clay-humic complex or exchange complex is formed
• Detect the amount of Carbonates and active Limestone we have in the soil and interpret both parameters
• Detect the amount of Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium we have in the soil and know how it works in the soil to control its management
• Know the secondary elements and micronutrients in the soil and their function in the soil and in the plant
• Understand soil management once it has been analyzed and define the options available for sustainable fertilization.

Content

• Soil as a heritage of farmers
• Soil fertility and its analysis
• Texture
• pH, balance indicator parameter
• Salinity and sodium, indicators of toxicity
• Organic matter, indicator of life
• Carbonates and active limestone
• Main nutrients, n, p, k
• Secondary elements and micronutrients
• Sustainable soil fertilization.