Library Resource
Journal Articles & Books
December, 1977
Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Philippines, China, Tanzania, India, Australia, Canada, Tunisia, Venezuela, Malawi, Pakistan, Ghana
A major problem facing the areas already under cultivation, is the seriousness of soil degradation and loss of soil fertility due to indiscriminate misuse of agricultural lands, forests and grazing lands. The modern thinking assigns to soil conservation a comprehensive and more positive role than in the past. in that sustained improvement complemented by the preservation of available resources should form the central concept. Soil conservation must not be limited solely to agricultural and grazing lands.