International Year of Soils-2015

As per UN resolution, every year December 5 is observed as the World Soil Day to create awareness of the importance of soil, and how we can preserve and restore it. The United Nations has also declared 2015 as the International Year of Soils.

According to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, 95% of our food comes from soil, and most of that food comes from family farms, which is a key to alleviating hunger and poverty. But due to the continuous use of soil plus natural calamities and climate change factors, soil is facing degradation and desertification. Conservation of soil through proper agricultural practices is a must.

Let us protect soil against degradation and desertification through local as well as global action.

Professor M Zahidul Haque
Department of Agricultural Extension & Information System, SAU, Dhaka