How can you control and prevent soil erosion?

Answer 1

Prevention Method 1: Planting Vegetation

Prevention Method 2: Matting

Prevention Method 3: Mulch/Fertilizer

Prevention Method 4: Retaining Walls/Edging

• Minimum tillage agriculture
• contour ploughing
• Terracing

Answer 2

Understand that trees, plants and grass help protect soil from erosion by keeping it in place with their roots. So plant trees and vegetation!

Install barriers to prevent erosion from continuing, plant more plants and trees to assist in holding soil together.

You can prevent by planting things and if you have a house on the property you can have a retaining wall all around it.

Contour farming -- furrows made with a plow follow the contour of the land. Each furrow serves as a dam, preventing the water from easily sinking into the soil.

More Information:

We can stop soil erosion by planting more trees to anchor the soil to the ground. Also we can go nomadic again so we are not overfarming or overgrazing in one place. Furthermore, if you have animals move them around every day.

The first and most important is to keep the soil covered with some type of vegetation. Erosion begins when a rain droplet strikes the exposed soil and detaches a particle of sol so that it can be washed away by runoff water. Decreasing the length of the slope so that the water can't gain energy through gravity and so carry soil with it is another way. A third is by increasing the amount of organic matter in the soil itself. Organic matter helps to bind the soil together so that rain has a harder time detaching the particle in the first place.

The impact of wind and water erosion on agricultural land and the surrounding environment can be reduced by:

• Preserving the condition of the soil surface by modifying farming practices, for example using conservation tillage techniques which do not disturb the soil as much as traditional tillage techniques and preventing stock from trampling the soil
• Keeping vegetation cover on the soil surface at all times, by adjusting stocking rates to prevent overgrazing, keeping crop stubble in place after harvesting and avoiding clear felling of forests
• Installing natural or artificial windbreaks, which reduce the speed and damaging effects of the wind can also reduce the environmental impacts of wind erosion.

How can the soil be improved ?

• Support organic farming by purchasing organic foods and encourage your local retailer to stock organic produce.
• If you are a farmer, you can conserve your soil resources by using conservation tillage techniques to reduce soil disturbance and compaction and by reducing stocking rates to limit soil compaction.
• However,the best way to reduce soil erosion is by making sure the soil is covered by vegetation as much as possible. You can achieve this by revegetating areas of your farm with native trees and understorey plants,leaving crop stubble in place after harvesting and by including cover crops or pasture in your cropping rotations.

Answer 3

1. Grow more trees on a large scale(afforestation)
2. Flood control.
3. Allow restricted animal grazing.
4. Follow terrace farming.
5. Construct bunds.

Answer 4

The following soil conservation measures may be adopted to prevent soil erosion:

* contour farming in moderate slopes

* vegetative measures to trap soil in steep areas

* structural measures to trap soil in steep areas * reforestation in upper watershed areas.

Answer 5

i) Soil erosion is the removal of soil from its surface by wind, water, and deforestation etc. Strong winds carry soil particles from one place to another to cause soil erosion.

Fast running water creates depressions in the soil to cause soil erosion.

Deforestation (cutting of trees) and overgrazing also lead to soil erosion.

Preventing soil erosion:

ii) Soil erosion can be controlled by the following ways:

a) By planting more trees (forestation).

b) By growing grasslands.

c) By providing proper drainage system in the fields.

d) By terrace cultivation on sloping fields..

e) By control of grazing.

Answer 6

One of the most important ways to prevent Soil Erosion in gardens is to plant may flowers, and many trees. Plants and trees are the protective shield to the soil that is affected by to much rainfall also snow and ice. Another way is to buy a safety soils saver. One big one is to buy Matting. Mostly available in wood fibers which is friendly and also biodegradable. Also provide mulch and little fertilizer it will assist the soil to build up and keep the plant safe and affective. But to much may cause pollution. When you see mud puddles on your driveway, grass, or even sidewalks that is a major sign of soil erosion. To prevent that put up minor walls around your plants. Therefor the water that is extra will hang around or be put to use in other plants.

Answer 7

* no-till farming

* terracing

* crop rotation

Answer 8

Well 1. You can plant more trees. 2. You can plant more crops. And finally you can start to contour plow to save the plants/dirt from eroding.

Answer 9

plant more trees this is a best way to avoid soil erosion