Letter to the Editor: Maintaining soil fertility is a necessity for survival

Agricultural activities are blamed as the major contributors to the damage being caused to our ecosystems.

I have been trying, repeatedly and totally unsuccessfully, to draw attention to the effects that monoculture and long-term cultivation practises are having on the global degradation of soil organic matter (SOM) reserves that is leading to soil degradation, the loss of soil fertility, and to soil erosion.