WAY TO PREVENT SOIL EROSION AND

CONSERVE THE SOIL

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.

Contour ploughing or contour farming orContour bunding

is the farming practice ofplowing and/or planting across a
slope following its elevation contour lines.

In agriculture, a terrace is a piece of sloped plane that has

been cut into a series of successively receding flat surfaces or
platforms, which resemble steps, for the purposes of more
effective farming. This type of landscaping, therefore, is called
terracing.

Strip cropping is a method of farming used when a slope is

too steep or too long, or otherwise, when one does not have an
alternative method of preventing soil erosion

Alley cropping is the cultivation of food, forage or specialty

crops between rows of trees. It is a larger version of intercropping
or companion planting conducted over a longer time scale

A windbreak or shelterbelt is a plantation usually made up of

one or more rows of trees or shrubs planted in such a manner as
to provide shelter from the wind and to protect soil from erosion.
They are commonly planted around the edges of fields on farms.