Farmland often harbors a multitude of pathogens which attack plants and reduce yields. A Swiss research team has now shown that inoculating the soil with mycorrhizal fungi can help maintain or even improve yields without using additional fertilizers or pesticides. In a large-scale field trial, plant yield increased by up to 40%.
Fungi do what no other life forms can, from breaking down poluants in the soil, absorbing heavy metals, etc.
Advancing to this kind of understanding only shows we are in the right direction to make more with far less.
Imagine the amount of land we can free by just implement advanced farming techniques, leveraged by this type of knowledge.