Friday, June 14th, 2013
China is conducting an emergency nationwide survey of soil pollution after rice was discovered with heavy metal poisoning. The rice with cadmium has spurred a concern that crops are unsafe, and the project will sample topsoil and...
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), state territory and agencies, Geoscience Australia, and the University of Sydney are collaborating to establish a new soil mapping facility in Australia, which seeks to respond to the need...
Friday, August 26th, 2011
Provincial Agriculturist Nicolasito Calawag said that the Soil Fertility and Land Use Mapping (SFLUM) kicked off this week and will last until November this year. In his letter to all Municipal Agriculturist in the province, Calawag enjoined...
Friday, May 27th, 2011
The agriculture department will undertake soil mapping in Sattari and Quepem on a pilot basis for a comprehensive study of the soil conditions. A central government agency had carried out a soil study in the late nineties,...
