How To Prevent Soil Erosion
How to
Prevent Soil
Erosion
TERRACING
Terrace
farming is a farming method that makes use of a hill to create a multiplatform farm. There are severals steps known as andenes which are built into the side of a hill. The idea behind it is that any rain that falls and builds up on the andenes will overflow into another andene below, making the most out of the nutrients it provides.
CROP ROTATION
The successive planting of different crops on the same land to improve soil fertility and help control insects and diseases. Crop rotation is the practice of growing a series of dissimilar/different types of crops in the same area in sequential seasons.
Crop rotation gives various benefits to the soil.
A traditional element of crop rotation is the replenishment of nitrogen
through the use of green manure in sequence with cereals and other crops.
CONTOUR PLOWING
It is flowing around the hill or slope. By plowing in curve lines, running water cannot easily go downhill, thus, soil is prevented from eroding.
Contour plowing or contour farming is the farming practice of plowing and/or planting across a slope following its elevation contour lines. These contour lines create a water break which reduces the formation of rills and gullies during times of heavy water run-off; which is a major cause of top soil loss and soil erosion.
RIPRAP
Riprap is the man-made barrier formed using rocks and other materials along beaches, rivers, and other bodies of water that are meant to slow or stop erosion from water. Riprap is usually seen along the shoreline. People living on the slope of a mountain or hill arrange big stones to form a wall on the slope. These are held together by using mud or cement.
Strip cropping
Strip cropping is a method of farming used when a slope is too steep or too long, or otherwise, when one does not have an alternative method of preventing soil erosion. Strip cropping alternates strips of closely sown crops such as hay,
Prevent Soil
Erosion
TERRACING
Terrace
farming is a farming method that makes use of a hill to create a multiplatform farm. There are severals steps known as andenes which are built into the side of a hill. The idea behind it is that any rain that falls and builds up on the andenes will overflow into another andene below, making the most out of the nutrients it provides.
CROP ROTATION
The successive planting of different crops on the same land to improve soil fertility and help control insects and diseases. Crop rotation is the practice of growing a series of dissimilar/different types of crops in the same area in sequential seasons.
Crop rotation gives various benefits to the soil.
A traditional element of crop rotation is the replenishment of nitrogen
through the use of green manure in sequence with cereals and other crops.
CONTOUR PLOWING
It is flowing around the hill or slope. By plowing in curve lines, running water cannot easily go downhill, thus, soil is prevented from eroding.
Contour plowing or contour farming is the farming practice of plowing and/or planting across a slope following its elevation contour lines. These contour lines create a water break which reduces the formation of rills and gullies during times of heavy water run-off; which is a major cause of top soil loss and soil erosion.
RIPRAP
Riprap is the man-made barrier formed using rocks and other materials along beaches, rivers, and other bodies of water that are meant to slow or stop erosion from water. Riprap is usually seen along the shoreline. People living on the slope of a mountain or hill arrange big stones to form a wall on the slope. These are held together by using mud or cement.
Strip cropping
Strip cropping is a method of farming used when a slope is too steep or too long, or otherwise, when one does not have an alternative method of preventing soil erosion. Strip cropping alternates strips of closely sown crops such as hay,