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Soil Conservation Practices

The document discusses several soil conservation practices including crop rotation, reduced tillage, mulching, cover cropping, and cross-slope farming. Crop rotation involves planting different crops sequentially to improve soil health and optimize nutrient levels. Reduced tillage minimizes soil disturbance and leaves crop residue on the ground. Mulching places organic material over the soil surface to protect it. Cover cropping grows protective crops between main crop cycles. Cross-slope farming establishes row patterns across slopes rather than up and down hills to reduce erosion.

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Soil Conservation Practices

The document discusses several soil conservation practices including crop rotation, reduced tillage, mulching, cover cropping, and cross-slope farming. Crop rotation involves planting different crops sequentially to improve soil health and optimize nutrient levels. Reduced tillage minimizes soil disturbance and leaves crop residue on the ground. Mulching places organic material over the soil surface to protect it. Cover cropping grows protective crops between main crop cycles. Cross-slope farming establishes row patterns across slopes rather than up and down hills to reduce erosion.

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soil

conservation
practices
CROP ROTATION
WHAT EXAMPLE ADVANTAGE'S

the practice of A farmer may plant a improve soil


cornfield. When the corn health
planting harvest is over, he may optimize
different crops plant beans because nutrients in the
sequentially on corn uses a lot of soil
the same plot nitrogen and beans combat pest and
of land return it to the soil.
weed pressure
reduced tillage
WHAT EXAMPLE ADVANTAGE'S

Minimizing soil The technique has farmers save on


disturbance and found some machinery use
practitioners in India, helps preserve the
allowing crop
specially in Punjab and soil's natural
residue or other northern and structure
stubble to remain north-western states for Chemical Free
on the ground. the wheat crop
MULCHING
WHAT EXAMPLE ADVANTAGE'S

The area will be cooler farmers save on


The placement of in the summer if machinery use
any organic or mulched. Mulch helps preserve the
inorganic material insulates the soil in
soil's natural
over the top of a winter, reducing frost
structure
soil surface to penetration. These
areas warm up slowly in
Chemical Free
protect it.
spring.
Cover Cropping
WHAT EXAMPLE ADVANTAGE'S

Close-growing Farmers around help prevent soil


crop that the world grow erosion
cover crops to regulate moisture
protects soil, structure
seeds, and soil protect the soil attract pollinators
between crop and increase crop serve as mulch
cycles. yields source of green manure
cross-slope farming
WHAT EXAMPLE ADVANTAGE'S

establishing a row Contour strip cropping reduce soil erosion


pattern that is not combines crop rotation by as much as 50
up and down hill and contouring in percent
and as nearly on equal-width corn or save irrigation water
the contour as soybean strips better crops on
possible alternated with oats, sloping fields.
grasses, or legumes.
Mineral
resources
Metallic &
Nonmetallic
METALLIC NONMETALLIC

Gold sand
Silver gravel
Tin gypsum
Copper halite
Lead Uranium
Mineral
Extraction
practices
underground mining
WHAT HOW

The mining The ore is then


process involves crushed into finely
the excavation of ground tailings for
large amounts of chemical processing
waste rock to and separation to
remove the desired extract the target
mineral ore minerals.
Placer Mining
WHAT/HOW

used to sift out


valuable metals
from sediments in
river channels,
beach sands, or
other environments
in-situ Mining
WHAT/HOW

Involves leaving the ore where it is


in the ground, and recovering the
minerals from it by dissolving
them and pumping the pregnant
solution to the surface where the
minerals can be recovered.

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