Advantages and Disadvantages of Soil Regeneration

Soil regeneration generally focuses on soil restoration and improving its quality in order to improve plant growth and crop yields without degrading the soils. Soil regeneration improves not only its sustainability but also tends to improve its water quality and protect the soil against erosion through runoff. Some of these techniques used for soil regeneration are cover cropping, crop rotation, zero till or minimal tillage, reducing soil disturbance, mulching, and integrated nutrient management (INM). These practices have many promising benefits, which include carbon sequestration and reducing the use of fossil fuels. In less than a decade, we’ve seen soil regeneration through regenerative farming, providing solutions to soil deterioration and future of farming system for the increasing world population. For example, in Singapore, Soil regeneration enables Singaporeans to have the capacity to not just know and appreciate food but also grow their own without soil deterioration. Despite the clear benefits of this, such as mitigating emissions, improved soil fertility, higher nutrient use efficiency, biodiversity conservation, and improved long-term farmer livelihoods. It’s still not growing fast enough, this is alarming because the solutions to our problems are available through our traditional conservation farming methods and we don’t need to reinvent the wheel.