Soil fertility and land productivity
Agriculture · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes
Fertility as what the soil can offer, productivity as what the land actually yields, and how Kenyan farmers keep or exhaust the soil.
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- 8 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
- Your progress kept across every subject you take
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- The properties of soil
- The soil profile, and investigating soil
- Soil horizons and Kenyan soil profiles
- Soil texture and the texture triangle
- Soil structure
- Porosity and drainage
- Soil water
- Soil fertility and land productivity
- Land classification in Kenya