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WME 508: Soil and water conservation
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Conservation farming
techniques Shelter belts / green belts
Shelter belts/green belts } Livingwindbreaks
Hedge rows
Minimum tillage }a plantation usually made up of
Relay cropping one or more rows of trees or
Mixed cropping shrubs planted in such a manner
Multiple cropping
Strip cropping as to provide shelter from the
Cover cropping wind and to protect soil from
Mulching erosion.
Green manure
Compost manure } commonly planted around the
Use of nitrogen fixing plants edges of fields on farms.
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Vegetation pattern in
Functions of shelter belt shelterbelt
} Reduces wind speed and wind erosion }a single line of trees or multiple rows of
} Lowers evapotranspiration; Regulates air trees
temperature } Rows of shrubs can also be added
} Enhances soil moisture } placed on the windward side
} Ultimately, increase in crop yield
Windward side
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} Land is partly ploughed and prepared for } Reduce cost for tillage
the seedbed rather than ploughing the
entire plot.
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