Threat to our fragile earth

CAP education officer N.V. Subbarow (left) showing the worms found in manure while Mohideen shows samples of soil during the CAP press conference to mark World Soil Day 2019.

WORLD Soil Day 2019, which falls on Dec 5 every year, calls attention to soil erosion which was identified as the number one environmental threat by World Soil Resources Report in 2015.

“The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations says the earth’s soil will be degraded by more than 90% by the year 2050.