Soil Conservation Techniques for Hillside Farms (Peace Corps, 1986, 96 p.): Soil conservation strategies: Strategies in cultivation systems characterized by extensive soil disturbance: (introduction...)

Soil Conservation Techniques for Hillside Farms (Peace Corps, 1986, 96 p.)

Soil conservation strategies

Strategies in cultivation systems characterized by extensive soil disturbance

		*(introduction...)*
		Crop rotation
		Contour barriers (live, dead and mixed barriers)
		Contour ditches (drainage and infiltration ditches)
		Terraces (individual, discontinuous narrow, and continuous bench terraces)
		Waterways from draining excess water for fields
		Gully prevention and control

(introduction...)

CONSERVATION STRATEGIES AIMED AT MINIMIZING SOIL LOSS AND INCREASING WATER INFILTRATION IN CULTIVATION SYSTEMS WHERE THERE IS EXTENSIVE SOIL DISTURBACE

Even though the techniques described in the previous section are more effective in reducing the environmental damages associated with man's agricultural activity, the techniques described in this section are much easier to promote because they are much easier to integrate into the traditional cultivation systems.