Agriculture across the country has seen astonishing diversity. As farmers learn the commercial calculations of producing fruits and crops, the times have forced them to think about soil health. The call came more than a decade and a half ago, but once the push for high-yielding crops began, not every farmer kept track of feeding both the soil and the crop, and not everyone thought about balance in fertiliser use.

Most farmers thought about diverse crops and ever higher yields. They could not always follow the rules for chemical fertiliser, nor pay attention to soil health. As a result, many lost yield and could not easily find the cause.

Now, with wide crop diversity in the fields, it is encouraging to see farmers' awareness of balanced fertiliser use. Farmers have learned to think about both the crop and the soil.

Source: Shykh Seraj, Hridoye Mati O Manush. First published in Bengali on The Agro News.