Soil Conservation
INTRODUCTION
Soil is the precious gift of nature to the mankind. All the plant family, animal kingdom and human society at large depend upon soil for their sustenance directly or indirectly. Ironically, soil is the most neglected commodity on the earth. Shifting cultivation on the hill slopes, non-adoption of soil conservation techniques, and over exploitation of land for crop production due to population stress, leads to enormous soil erosion. It will take hundreds of years to form an inch of soil, but in no time it gets washed away down the slope due to erosion.
SOIL CONSERVATION
Soil Conservation is the process by which the loss of soil is checked, reducing the velocity of run-off through erosion control measures for maximum sustained crop production and for protection of human lift. So conservation of soil is essential for sustenance of human life on the earth.
DEFINITION
Soil conservation is set of management strategies for prevention of soil being eroded from the earth’s surface or becoming chemically altered by overuse, salinisation, acidification, or other chemical soil contamination.
OBJECTIVE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION
✓ Enhancing and sustaining productivity of available land stock for primary production systems of crop cultivation livestock rising and forest management. ✓ Generating additional employment opportunities and income through secured livelihood in rural areas. ✓ Maintaining beneficial relationship between land and water cycles and deter / moderate hazards of droughts and flood. ✓ Retarding Watershed degradation caused by deforestation, soil erosion, sedimentation, land degradation and hydrologic deterioration of the watersheds. ✓ Locating, reclaiming and developing culturable wastelands, fallows other than current fallows and degraded lands to meet increasing and competing demands for additional land stock for various sectors.
IMPORTANCE OF SOIL CONSERVATION
Most people know that they need clean
Soil is the precious gift of nature to the mankind. All the plant family, animal kingdom and human society at large depend upon soil for their sustenance directly or indirectly. Ironically, soil is the most neglected commodity on the earth. Shifting cultivation on the hill slopes, non-adoption of soil conservation techniques, and over exploitation of land for crop production due to population stress, leads to enormous soil erosion. It will take hundreds of years to form an inch of soil, but in no time it gets washed away down the slope due to erosion.
SOIL CONSERVATION
Soil Conservation is the process by which the loss of soil is checked, reducing the velocity of run-off through erosion control measures for maximum sustained crop production and for protection of human lift. So conservation of soil is essential for sustenance of human life on the earth.
DEFINITION
Soil conservation is set of management strategies for prevention of soil being eroded from the earth’s surface or becoming chemically altered by overuse, salinisation, acidification, or other chemical soil contamination.
OBJECTIVE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION
✓ Enhancing and sustaining productivity of available land stock for primary production systems of crop cultivation livestock rising and forest management. ✓ Generating additional employment opportunities and income through secured livelihood in rural areas. ✓ Maintaining beneficial relationship between land and water cycles and deter / moderate hazards of droughts and flood. ✓ Retarding Watershed degradation caused by deforestation, soil erosion, sedimentation, land degradation and hydrologic deterioration of the watersheds. ✓ Locating, reclaiming and developing culturable wastelands, fallows other than current fallows and degraded lands to meet increasing and competing demands for additional land stock for various sectors.
IMPORTANCE OF SOIL CONSERVATION
Most people know that they need clean