'Black gold agriculture' may revolutionize farming, curb global ...

Courtesy http://www.eurekalert.org/rss/business.xml  Wed, 04/09/2008 - 23:00

Fifteen hundred years ago, tribes people from the central Amazon basin mixed their soil with charcoal derived from animal bone and tree bark.

Today, at the site of this charcoal deposit, scientists have found some of the richest, most fertile soil in the world.

Now this ancient, remarkably simple farming technique seems far ahead of the curve, holding promise as a carbon-negative strategy to rein in world hunger as well as greenhouse gases.


 

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