AGRICULTURE
Soil Degradation
Soil Degradation
Soil provides living things with food, fibers and fuel. It supports wildlife and rural and urban activities. Recently, the soil that we currently using is becoming dried up.
Agriculture plays a large part in soil degradation, especially clearing, irrigation, the spreading of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, overgrazing and even the passage of heavy farming equipment.The constant change in or soil and the change in the way we produce our foods causes damage to the soil. The use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides contributes to the shirking size of the amount of soil their is left.
Some Advantages are is made for poorly drained soils. Can withhold from being in difficult climate, minimum lobar and fuel cost Some disadvantages are high soil moisture lost, destroys structure of soil. Their will be major soil erosion, must be annual row crops.
"Combines, balers, rippers, cultivators, diskers, tractors of every variety—all can be found at the annual Wisconsin Farm Technology Days show. But the stars of the show are the great harvesters, looming over the crowd. They have names like hot rods—the Claas Jaguar 970, the Krone BiG X 1000—and are painted with colors bright as fireworks. The machines weigh 15 tons apiece" --(nationalgeographic)
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Degradation
Pros/Cons
The International Erosion Control Association (IECA) is the world's oldest and largest associations devoted to helping members solve the problems caused by erosion and its byproduct-sediment. Helps provide a source for programs and projects thatcan help improve environmental quality for the present and the future.
Organizations
Effectiveness
Soil degradation will continue to be a global issue that eventually almost every country will face. Due to its agronomic productivity, the effects it has on the environment and its effect of the security of food. The continuation of such productivity will continuously ruin our soil and within a few decades the structure of the soil will be completely ruined. Through the help of organizations groups like the ICES have tried to come up with ways to prevent further damage from occurring.