Soil Conservation

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a method to maintain the fertility of the soil by protecting the soil from erosion and nutrient loss.

Which of these is NOT a soil conservation technique/ method?

Soil can be conserved and its fertility can be maintained by using various methods of soil conservation.

Varying (changing) the crops on a piece of land in a planned series (yearly), to save or increase the mineral or organic content of the soil.

1. term used for the central and southern great plains during the 1930s when the region suffered from drought and dust storms

G. Washington Carver helped the farmers by studying and teaching this soil technique___________.

a farming system in which the seeds are directly deposited into untilled soil which has retained the previous crop residues

When steep hillsides are built up into a series of flat "terraces" it slows down runoff and reduces erosion.