Review. Effect of integrating agricultural applications of biofertilizers and mineral fertilizers on soil-plant relationships

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R. Martínez-Viera

Abstract

The irrational chemical level reached by
agriculture all over the world constitutes one of the main causes
for the high environmental contamination in the planet, whose
characteristics are described in the present paper. Therefore,
the application of new biotechnologies is being imposed at
present, such as biofertilizers, with the objective of adapting
them to the sustainable development of the poorest locations
in the planet, besides taking advantages of their benefits, to
place the mineral fertilizers in its right position. Agricultural
sustainability includes the rational use of agrochemicals
integrated with biological elements. To reach this aim, a
theoretical framework is required with new assumptions that
permit to establish commitments adapted to the current
situation, looking for more productivity and quality of the
agricultural products. On the other hand, the present work
also analyzes the need of integrating the biological and
technical approaches, which are developing in agricultural
sciences, with those derived from social sciences, for instance,
the Political Ecology, that analyzes the relationships between
economical and political power to manage natural resources,
and the approach oriented to actors to get integrated into
interdisciplinary and multiple scale researches.

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Martínez-Viera, R. (2012). Review. Effect of integrating agricultural applications of biofertilizers and mineral fertilizers on soil-plant relationships. Cultivos Tropicales, 31(3), 27–31. Retrieved from https://ediciones.inca.edu.cu/index.php/ediciones/article/view/88
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