A collaborative research group led by Center Director Masakazu Komatsuzaki at our center investigated the effects of “regenerative agriculture”—combining no-till practices, cover crops, and biochar—on soybean cultivation in Japan’s Andosol soils. For further details, please visit the Ibaraki University website [here] (in Japanese).

The results of this study have been published in the open-access journal Scientific Reports, published by Springer Nature.

Soil health improvement and climate change mitigation in soybean agroecosystems
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-45849-8