Soil management

Soil management

1. What is? Soil management is the application of operations, practices, and treatments to protect soil and enhance its performance (such as soil fertility or soil mechanics).

2. Poor soil management can result in 3 problems

   • Erosion
     • The process by which water, ice, wind. Or gravity moves fragments of rock and soil
   • Nutrient depletion
     • When farmers plant the same crops in field year after year. As a result, the plants use more nutrients than the decomposers can replace, The soil becomes less fertile.
   • Desertification
     • Is the process whereby productive land becomes so seriously eroded that any remainibng soil loses nutrients essential to plant growth.
       • The natural causes are maifold drougth: Higher temperatures, lower tables, and deforest land, erosion

3. Some farming methods that help reduce erosion:

   • Terracing
   • Windbreaks

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