• 1 Tablespoon of soil has more organisms in it than there are people on earth.
• It takes minimum 500 years to form one inch of topsoil.
• There are 5,000 different types of bacteria present in one gram of soil.
• A quarter of all known species on earth call soil their home.
• In an acre of cropland’s soil about 1,400,000 earthworms can be found.
• 10% of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions stored in the soil.
• Globally, up to 50,000 square kilometers of topsoil – an area around the size of Costa Rica – is lost every year mainly due to wind and water erosion.