Stopping Soil Erosion
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There are many ways in which soil erosion can be stopped and a lot of them are not very difficult to implement. |
One way to do it is to maintain good ground cover. The easiest and practical way to do this is to sow a cover crop or a companion crop. The non cash crop will ensure that the soil stays put while the cash crop gets to use all the nutrients and the other advantages of having the top soil stay put. Retaining cereal stubble goes the extra mile of supplying organic matter in between harvest and sowing the next set of seeds.
An even better method is direct drilling. It cuts down costs a whole lot and involves direct input of organic material into the soil. This can be appropriated for any kind of soil so that the soil gets the best benefits. It lessens the work that needs to be done to see that the best is got out of the soil that the soil stays uneroded
The advantage of organic matter is that it makes the soil, along with micro organisms, stick together by aggregating. This makes it much tougher than to get eroded resulting in more yield. One of the better ways to introduce organic matter into the soil is to plant green mature crops, which naturally injects organic matter into the crops. The organic matter in effect not only stands against impact of water but rather it also allows water to be better absorbed.
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