Solvita® is Soil Life, from latin: [solum] soil; [vita] life
Your Farm
Your Soil
Your Carbon
Solvita® has advanced across markets and is inspiring soil conservationists, farmers and composters in new ways to gauge the quality of their products.
Soil Quality
Compost Quality
Solvita® probes are sensitive media responding to CO2 and NH3 gases as they are released naturally from compost.
About Solvita
Solvita’s mission is to increase awareness of soil biology functions by providing simple, accurate tools for performing measurements in the field and laboratory.
Soil Health
Soil Health is an emerging concept of soil fertility which includes biological traits like microbial respiration in equal footing with nutrient chemistry.
Compost Quality Monitoring
Many composters worldwide employ Solvita® to monitor the composting process and to certify end-product maturity.
Carbon Respirometry
IRTH® is an investigator’s ideal tool to carefully study scenarios which reveal and validate biological carbon dioxide behavior of soils and composts at the micro- to macro-scale.
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Africa soil health study reveals robustness of Solvita basal respiration test
A study reported in the Sept 2022 journal Agronomy for Sustainable Development evaluates reversing soil degradation by introducing conservation practices. A number of paired fields (comparing improved vs traditional practices) in Ethiopia (23 farms), Kenya (23...
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