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Mechanical soil conservation strategies to reduce soil erosion

Due to its location and geology, Dominica is highly vulnerable to a large number of hazards, such as hurricanes, storms, heavy rainfalls, and landslides. These hazards directly affect agricultural productivity and production and increase the potential for soil erosion, which leads to a loss of productive top soils. Therefore, careful soil management practices in crop production are required in order to strengthen farms’ resilience to disasters. Mechanical soil conservation strategies help to protect the soil from the impacts of heavy rain and wind, prevent soil erosion, and conserve soil moisture. They comprise different structures, such as bunds, terraces, or vegetative barriers, which can be made of plants, rocks, or a In Dominica, natural disasters, such as storms and heavy rainfalls, regularly occur and have a direct impact on its agricultural sector. Therefore, mechanical soil conservation strategies are important management practices for crop production.mixture of live and dead material. The objective of mechanical soil conservation strategies is to protect the soil from the impacts of heavy rain and wind and prevent soil erosion. This measure will help increasing the resilience of the livelihoods of the farmers present in this agro system. Soil conservation will help to maintain nutrients and structure, which will contribute maintaining the crop yield under stable conditions.

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المؤلف: FAO Strategic Objective 5 – Resilience, in FAO
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المنظمة: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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السنة: 2020
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البلد/البلدان: Dominica
التغطية الجغرافية: أمريكا اللاتينية والبحر الكاريبي
النوع: الممارسات
النص الكامل متاح على: https://www.fao.org/teca/en/technologies/8208
لغة المحتوى: English
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