The Role of Vermiculite in Soil

　　The benefits of adding vermiculite to crop growth are: reducing fertilizer input, promoting plant growth, shortening maturity period, and adding vermiculite to compound fertilizer can improve crop yield. Vermiculite can be used as soil amendment, improve soil structure, improve soil permeability and water content, make acidic soil into neutral soil, can play a buffer role, hinder the rapid change of ph, and slow release of fertilizer in crop growth medium.