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World Soil Day 2024
- 09 Dec 2024
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World Soil Day is held annually on 5th December focussing on healthy soil and advocating for the sustainable management of soil resources.
- Theme: Caring for soils: measure, monitor, manage.
- Adoption: It was adopted by the UN General Assembly in December 2013, with the first World Soil Day observed on 5th December 2014.
- 5th December marks the birth anniversary of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, a key supporter of this initiative.
- Conservation Efforts: In India, Mitti Bachao (Save the Soil) Movement started in Hoshangabad (Narmadapuram), Madhya Pradesh in 1977 against soil degradation caused by the Tawa Dam in Madhya Pradesh.
- Over 95% of our food comes from soils. Besides, they supply 15 of the 18 naturally occurring chemical elements essential to plants.
- Sustainable Soil Management Practices: Minimum tillage, crop rotation, organic matter addition, and cover cropping.
