This paper develops a soil conservation model that is relevant to smallholder farmers who applylittle or no fertilizer. Empirical results drawn from northern Tanzania imply that, ignoringfertility mining problem in model specification leads to overestimation of profits for farms thatapply little or no fertilizer. The model also shows that, the impact of output price on soilc...

Prescribed fire was used in two semiarid grasslands to reduce shrub cover, promote grass production, and reduce erosional loss that represents a potential non–point-source of sediment to degrade water quality. This study measured transported soil sediment, dynamics in soil surface microtopography, cover of the woody shrub, grass, and bare ground cover classes, and soil fertility measured by nit...

land use optimization using linear programing is a method in watershed management for access to production sustainability and decreasing of soil erosion. the sensitivity analysis of the model can with investigation of results influence form changes in input parameters, lead to decrease the uncertainty in decision-making of management programs. so in this research, linear programming model using...

Activities to reduce soil erosion, soil fertility and increasing agricultural production and finally crop income have considered fundamental in the implementation of sustainable agriculture in Iran. This research investigates the effects of no-till (NL) technology to reduce soil erosion and increasing agricultural income and eventually for achieving sustainability. Data were collected through q...

the presentstudy aimed to compare the annual soil loss prediction of rusle model with the soil erosion measurements using erosion pins and plots in khamesan representative watershed, kurdistan province. for this purpose, the distributed annual soil loss was estimated by rusle model. the suspended sediment samples were then collected daily for one year (2015/7 to 2016/6) in hydrometry station at...

soil erosion is a serious environmental problem in vazroud watershed, which is located in the centre of the mazandaran province, iran. unfortunately, vazroud watershed like most iran watersheds don’t have recorded data and erosion and sedimentation gages to research, monitor and model soil erosion at large watershed. in order to assess the soil erosion risk, soil erosion modeling at the watersh...