Conservation and Improvement of Sloping Lands, Vol. 1
eBook - ePub

Conservation and Improvement of Sloping Lands, Vol. 1

Practical Understanding

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Conservation and Improvement of Sloping Lands, Vol. 1

Practical Understanding

About this book

This book offers a positive response to the challenge to both conserve and improve the soil and water situation particularly on sloping lands. It explains how even apparently useless land can be brought into production using locally available resources.

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781040289907
Edition
0
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Agriculture
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Foreword
  6. Acknowledgement and Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1 Soil and water conservation, and soil improvement one of the greatest challenges of our time!
  10. Chapter 2 Some of the wrong ideas and practices concerning soil conservation
  11. Chapter 3 Soil
  12. Chapter 4 A closer look at better plant nutrition
  13. Chapter 5 Improving the soil management
  14. Chapter 6 Erosion
  15. Chapter 7 Soil conservation theory
  16. Chapter 8 Soil and fertility conservation
  17. Chapter 9 Water conservation
  18. Chapter 10 Forestry and Agroforestry
  19. Chapter 11 Bamboo: An undervalued crop plant
  20. Chapter 12 Livestock
  21. Chapter 13 Some grasses and legumes for use in soil conservation
  22. Chapter 14 Practical surveying of land for soil conservation
  23. Chapter 15 Appropriate field trials
  24. Chapter 16 Weed control
  25. Chapter 17 What are the needs for research and development for genuine sustainable soil conservation and improvement; particularly that appropriate for normal third world situations?
  26. Chapter 18 Extension policy and methods
  27. Chapter 19 Other considerations
  28. Chapter 20 To close
  29. Appendix 1 Converting slope/angle values
  30. Appendix 2 Soils
  31. Appendix 3 Waterways
  32. Appendix 4 The effects of soil management on soil erosion
  33. Appendix 5 Assessing soil moisture content
  34. Appendix 6 Glossary/dictionary of terms, words, and parts of words which help us to understand the meaning of the words
  35. Appendix 7 Manures
  36. Appendix 8 Soil micro organisms
  37. Appendix 9 Cation exchange capacity (CEC)
  38. References
  39. Index