Allowing ants and termites to flourish can increase a wheat crop’s yield by more than one third. Ants and termites help improve water infiltration and soil nitrogen levels, which reduces the need for increasingly expensive and environmentally harmful petroleum-based products such as herbicides, pesticides and fertilisers.
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