Once in Port-au-Prince, many find surviving from day to day as difficult as raising a crop in the depleted soil.
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Fertilizers deplete soil of organic matter and trace elements, cause salination and suppress mycorrhizae; they can also turn symbiotic bacteria into competitors.
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Economic growth began to falter by the end of the 13th century, owing to a combination of over-population, land shortages and depleted soils.
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An extended dry spell depletes soil moisture to a very great depth, disrupting the capillary action that brings moisture up from the subsoil.
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Drought can be defined as the absence of rainfall or irrigation for a period of time sufficient to deplete soil moisture and injure plants.
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Cool, wet weather in the Plains states is seen as benefiting the winter wheat crop, with rain restoring some of the depleted soil moisture.
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And rainfall has been inconsistent in the last few months, depleting soil moisture in a swath of states throughout the South and Midwest, officials said.
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The condition of corn and soybean fields declined last week as extreme heat depleted soil moisture, according to the U . S . Department of Agriculture.
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Greedy overplanting of cotton, the failure to rotate crops and other disastrous farming techniques depleted soils throughout the Southeast during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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You can fill up on spinach, turnips, shallots and yams and still have a weak immune system, because generations of farming have depleted soil nutrients, she said.
