Soil conservation

Soil conservation is a set of management strategies for prevention of soil being eroded from the earth'ssurface or becoming chemically altered by overuse, salinization, acidification, or other chemical soil contamination. The principal approaches these strategies take are:choice of vegetative cover, erosion prevention, salinitymanagement, acidity control, encouraging health of beneficial soil organisms, prevention and remediation of soil contamination, mineralization, other ways are; no till farming, contour plowing, wind rows, crop rotation,the use of natural and man-made fertilizer, resting the land ( Shmita)