Name: Conservation of Land Resources
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 5 min 32 s
Description: This video explains how humans are constantly consuming land resources, resulting in their depletion, as well as the different causes and solutions.

Question

Discuss the agricultural practices that can be adopted for soil conservation.

Accepted Answer

The existing agricultural practices that can help to prevent soil erosion are:

(i) Cultivating different crops in the same field at different times of the year. It helps the soil to keep a balance of the minerals in the soil.

(ii) Strip cropping or the cultivation of erosion-inducing crops in rotation and alternation with erosion-resisting crops.

(iii) Terrace farming and contour farming involves the construction of banks along the contours across the hill slopes.

(iv) Contour ploughing is the cultivation of land along the contours in order to check the flow of water, which otherwise can wash away the soil.

(v) Cover crops are grown in order to cover the bare ground. Such crops are grown mostly in orchards and plantations where the gestation period of tree crops is long.

(vi) Fallowing or allowing the land to rest so that the natural forces can replenish soil fertility.

(vii) Water management helps stop bacteria and helps in higher crop yield.

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