Organic Soil Amendments for Sustainable Agriculture: A Comprehensive Review

Abstract

The sustainability of agriculture is thought to be threatened by the scarcity of water resources in arid and semiarid regions. Modernization and industrial pollution have increased and polluted the soil. Modern agriculture with the help of inorganic fertilizer and pesticides degrades the soil quality resulting in the decrease yield in the agriculture. Soil amendment is one of the approaches to improve the quality of the soil in the natural process. Organic wastes are collected, processed and used as a soil amendment. This review focused on the different types of organic soil amendment used to increase the physio-chemical properties of the soil.