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Using Native Shrubs to Increase Soil Health and Crop Yield

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc2xWFUMXzM

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04:49:00

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2022

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Being medicinal plants for the farmers in an area, native shrubs can also be used as boosters to increase soil health and crop yield. Not only shrubs provide leaves, stems and roots to improve soil quality, nutrients and improve soil ability to store water, they bring water near the soil surface from undergroud for crops due to their deeper roots ad crops in ield wirth shrubs mature 15 days earlier.

Using shrubs

First, keep shrubs in field and during lad preparation,cut shrubs at soil surface and do not burn them instead chopcut them into pieces and spread them with leaves in the field. During ploughing, plough them into soil to beak dow and prevent nematatods and finally keep native shrubs in field.
Sequence from Sequence to Description
00:0001:26Shrubs provide stems, leaves ad roots to soil.
01:2702:01Shri=ubs bring water near soil surface from underground.
02:0202:16Crops in field with shrubs mature 15 days earlier.
02:1702:34Keep shrubs in field and during land preparation, cut them into soil.
02:3502:44Chop cut shrubs and spread them with leaves in field.
02:4502:59During ploughing, plough them into soil.
03:0003:06Keep native shrubs in field.
03:0704:49Summary

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