Some other points to understand for soil conservation

 Biological Engineering

Bioengineering is the application of engineering design and technology to living systems.

Bioengineering techniques used in combination with civil and social engineering measures can reduce the overall cost.

Bioengineering offers an environmentally friendly and highly cost and time effective solution to slope instability problems in mountainous and hilly areas and is a technique of choice to control soil erosion, slope failure, landslides, and debris flows, and thus ultimately helping minimize the occurrence of floods and flash floods.

Brush layering

In brush layering, live-cut branches are interspersed between layers of soil to stabilize a slope against shallow sliding or erosion. Fresh green cuttings are layered in lines across the slope.

As the roots grow, they anchor and reinforce the upper soil layers (up to 2 m depth), and the foliage helps to catch debris.

Some toe protection structures such as wattle fencing, fiber schine, or rock riprap may be required to support brush layering.

Hydro-seeding

Hydroseeding involves adding a mixture of grass seed, fertilizer, mulch, and soil additives to a tank, then applying it to the soil via a high-pressure distribution system that combines all the ingredients to form a slurry and sprays it on the soil with a hose. The slurry also includes an organic “tackifier” (glue) that helps the seed stay in contact with the grass.

Mulch

Any material used (spread) at the surface or vertically in the soil to assist soil and water conservation and soil productivity is called much.

To achieve optimum advantage from the mulch the mulch should be applied immediately after germinationofcrop@5 ton/ ha (organic mulch).

Mulches are used for various reasons but water conservation and erosion control are the most important objects in agriculture in dry regions.

Mulches when property managed definitely aid wind and water erosion control. Another reason for high mulching is followed includes soil temperature modification soil conservation nutrient addition, improvement in soil structure weed control, and crop quality control.

High-Density Planting

High density means increasing the plant population per unit area for increasing the production of fruit crops.

Multiple Cropping

Multiple cropping is the practice of growing two or more crops in the same piece of land in the same growing seasons instead of one crop. It is a form of polyculture.

Cover Cropping

A cover crop is a crop of a specific plant that is grown primarily for the benefit of the soil rather than the crop yield.

Cover crops are commonly used to suppress weeds, manage soil erosion, help build and improve soil fertility and quality, control diseases and pests, and promote biodiversity.

Conservation Tillage

Conservation tillage is any method of soil cultivation that leaves the previous year's crop residue (such as corn stalks or wheat stubble) on fields before and after planting the next crop to reduce soil erosion and runoff, as well as other benefits such as carbon sequestration

Conservation tillage is an agricultural management approach that aims to minimize the frequency or intensity of tillage operations in an effort to promote certain economic and environmental benefits

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