The United Nations organization for food and agriculture argues that humanity hastaken the soils of the world for granted. Due to chemical pollution, erosion,salinization, compaction, and acidification, 33 percent of the soils are moderately orhighly degraded. If humanity loses more productive soils, there is a risk that foodinsecurity and poverty would increase as well as the diminishing of severalecosystem services.This study focuses on the anthropogenic external factors that affect the agriculturalfields since the conventional and organic farmers use different methods relating tofertilizers, manure, and pesticides. A comparison of soil organic matter between soilsamples from organic and conventional farms in Sweden was carried out, throughsoil sampling and then analyzed with the combustion method. The study alsoevaluates the effect of erosion on the fields in the sampling region.According to this study’s results, there is no significant difference between theamount of soil organic matter in conventional or organic farming soil in southeastSweden, and there has been no erosion on the fields in the past seven years since theSOM content had neither increased nor decreased. This knowledge can be of furtheruse in soil science studies.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-114242 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Jörgensen, Jesper |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för biologi och miljö (BOM) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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