Journal of Agricultural Science and Food Research
Open Access
ISSN: 2593-9173
ISSN: 2593-9173
Soil erosion is a serious problem in rural area throughout the world especially in developing countries. Soil water conservation measures play significant importance to protect soil erosion and fertility degradation which leads to enhancing productivity. The objective of this paper was to review importance of agronomical and biological soil water conservation measures to enhance soil fertility and reducing soil erosion. There are different types of biological and agronomical conservation measures such as; row cropping, contour cultivation, multiple cropping, buffer cultivation, mulching, agroforestry and conservation tillage. Based on different published research sources, this review proves each conservation measures have variable performance on soil loss impounding and fertility enhancement. However, researchers agreed up on these conservation measures are so effective in soil erosion hindering and fertility enhancement over non-conserved area and physical soil water conservation measures. Not only decrease running soil from farm land, these structures also improve soil fertility by retain soil organic matter from residue of leaves and branches, develop soil moisture and make gentle or nearly gentle of steep slopes. It is more applicable and effective where arable lands are not extremely steep and fertility improvement is highly required. Therefore, farmers should apply biological soil water conservations measures basically for the purposes of soil fertility enrichment and development.
Published Date: 2024-07-19; Received Date: 2019-10-11