GUIMARAS STATE COLLEGE – GRADUATE SCHOOL

Address: Mclain, Buenavista, Guimaras

Contact Number: (033) 580 – 8244, Website: www.gsc.edu.ph

AGRICULTURAL
AND SOIL
RESOURCES
Reporter: Girlie Joy B. Ciriaco
OBJECTIVES
 Identified the different natural resources
and their uses.

 Initiated acts on conservation and

preservation of natural resources.
AGRICULTURAL
AND SOIL
RESOURCES
SOIL
 The unconsolidated organic and mineral
material on the earth’s surface that is
capable of supporting plants.

 A dynamic natural body, in which plants grow ,

that is composed of mineral and organic
materials and living organisms
SOIL RESOURCES

Soil is the uppermost layer of

the earth. It orginates from
parent rock and contains both
organic and inorganic
substances. Fertility of a soil
depends on depth.
SOIL COMPOSITION

45% Mineral paticles ( broken down

pieces of rock)
5% Organic matter (humus _ from dead
organisms, worm castings, leaf litter)
25% Water (precipitation)
25% Air (More with sandy oil, less with
clay soil)
Soil Organisms – Millions in one teaspon of fertile
agricultural soil consist of bacteria, fungi, algae,
microscopic worms
o Provide ecological services such as worm
castings,
o Decomposition to humus,
o Breaking down of toxic materials,
o Cleansing water,
o Nutrient cycling from decomposers or upon
death
Classification of Soil
Alluvial Soil
Black Soil
Red and yellow soil
Laterite soil
Arid Soil
Forest Soil
AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES
 Agricultural resources means soil, livestock,
crops, water resources, or any part of which is
agricultural use.
 Three Major Agricultural
Resources in the Philippines

Crop Production

Forestry

Fisheries
 Crop Production
 Major agricultural systems include
lowland irrigated farming, rainfed
farming and upland farming. Irrigated
farm areas mainly grow rice and
sugarcane while rainfed areas are
planted with coconuts , corn,
sugarcane, and cassava.
 Forestry
 The role of forests and trees play in
improving agricultural productivity
has long been recognised: forests and
trees help maintain and restore soil
fertility and stability and they help
protect water supplies.
 Fisheries
 There are manifold interactions between
fisheries and agriculture through the common
use of land and water resources and concurrent
production activities to support rural village
communities and supply urban areas with the
needed quantity and variety of food.
 “To waste, to destroy our natural
resources, to skin and exhaust the land
instead of using it so as to increase its
usefulness, will result in undermining in the
days of our children the very prosperity
which we ought by right hand down to them
amplified and developed.”
- Theodore Roosevelt

Thank you and God bless.