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Valuing Soil Conservation Benefits of Agroforestry Practices
Although advocates of agroforestry have promoted soil conservation as one of its primary benefits, empirical estimates of these benefits have been lacking due to temporal and spatial complexity of agroforestry systems and soil resource dynamics. This study aims to reduce this gap by designing and testing a three stage farm level productivity methodology for economic evaluation of soil conservat...
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The purpose of this study is to assess Farmers’ attitude toward the soil conservation practices in the Kushk-Abad catchment basins in the province of Khorasan Razavi. A sample of 200 farmers was randomly selected from 1200 farmers living in Kardeh catchment basin. Data collection was done through a questionnaire that was administered in 2014. Validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by a pan...
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The existing empirical literature on farmers’ use of soil-conserving, runoff-reducing farming practices, while sizable, contains relatively little information on the influence of cost on adoption decisions and on how farmers combine multiple practices into an overall conservation package. Such knowledge is important in light of current interest in reorienting agricultural policy toward environm...
متن کاملIntegrating soil conservation practices and glyphosate-resistant crops: impacts on soil.
BACKGROUND Conservation practices often associated with glyphosate-resistant crops, e.g. limited tillage and crop cover, improve soil conditions, but only limited research has evaluated their effects on soil in combination with glyphosate-resistant crops. It is assumed that conservation practices have similar benefits to soil whether or not glyphosate-resistant crops are used. This paper review...
متن کاملfactors affecting the adoption of soil mechanical conservation practices in dry lands of the izeh township
land degradation due to soil erosion has been well pointed out as one of the most serious ecological and economic problems that some such south asian countries including iran are faced with. although high investment has been made, particularly in introduction of soil conservational mechanical practices, the level of acceptance of these practices has been low and while a high rate of erosion con...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Soil Science
سال: 1955
ISSN: 0038-075X
DOI: 10.1097/00010694-195506000-00008