Question

The diagram below illustrates a method of soil conservation. Study it and answer questions that follow.

1. Name the biological control measure of soil shown above. 
2. In what kind of topography is the soil control measure practiced?
3. Name four other biological control measures of soil apart from the one named in (i) above.

Answer 1

1. Contour farming
2. Gentle slope.
3.    
   • Grass strips/ filter strips, cover cropping, mulching,
   • cropping systems –like rotational grazing, crop rotation correct spacing, intercropping, ridges/ furrows along contours
   • Strip cropping, grassed or vegetated water ways, afforestration/ reafforestration
   • Agroforestry.