Andrew Colin McClung

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Dr. Andrew Colin McClung is an American scientist who received the 2006 World Food Prize for his role in helping transform the Cerrado - a region of vast, once infertile tropical high plains stretching across Brazil - into highly productive cropland.

Research[edit | edit source]

McClung's research on the soil degradation plaguing central Brazil showed that acidity, toxic levels of aluminum, and deficiencies of several micronutrients in the soil limited plant growth.

Solution[edit | edit source]

Moreover, McClung developed a treatment which employed dolomitic lime to eliminate the aluminum toxicity of the soils, supply calcium and magnesium, and modify the availability of other nutrients.

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