Soil Foodweb Institute South Africa

The lab measuring the life in your soil

Recent advances in agricultural microbial ecology indicate that soil microbes are the critical link in soil health and ultimately may impact on crop nutrition. Decades of abuse have left our soils exhausted and infested with pests. Microbial ecology may prove to be the turning point in our efforts to pursue sustainable farming activities.

Soil microbiology is key to understanding soil and compost disease suppressiveness, compost and compost tea quality, soil nutrition status in relation to soil foodweb dynamics, etc. We encourage our customers as follows: “If you can measure it, you can manage it.”

This laboratory determines key microbiological indicators for soil, compost, and organic soil amendments such as compost tea, effective microbes (EM), etc.

Please contact us and we will send you our sample submission forms which contain sampling and sending instructions, or visit our laboratory and experience the wonder of the soil foodweb through the microscope.

Private Bag 1106

Aquaculture Research Unit

Room 0004

University of Limpopo

Sovenga

0727

To contact us:

Phone: 015-268-2912

Fax: 086 586 5674

E-mail: stephanus@zz2online.com

Once you are inside the University of Limpopo premises, please proceed to the Department of Aquaculture as directed by the road signs (Map courtesy of University of Limpopo corporate communications department).