About our lab

We are the laboratory of Soil Fertility and Crop Nutrition in the department of Soil and Environmental Sciences in NCHU (National Chung Hsing University) of Taiwan. 

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Soil fertility is not simply about total nutrients in the soil nor the numbers on a soil test report. Soil fertility is the heart of agriculture production, in other words, human food security. The maintenance of soil fertility should be a shared-goal in sustainable agricultural research.

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Potential approaches and strategies that are able to maintain soil fertility sustainability include: using fertilisers derived from agricultural wastes or from a sustainable source, preventing loss of soil nutrients and improving nutrient use efficiency of crops. 

 

In our lab, we are currently focusing on investigating the biochemical properties of organic fertilisers from different sources, and their impact on soil biogeochemistry, crop nutrition (both macro- and micronutrients), and ultimately on human and animal health. We are also investigating the downward influence from plants on soil biogeochemistry and how different cropping systems, e.g., rotation and mixed cropping system, can improve nutrient use efficiency in an agricultural system. 

We hope that, via our experiments, we can gain strong science-based evidences for growing crops in a more sustainable and wiser approach.

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