In mountain farms, challenges posed by the degree of land slope, altitude and harsh climate further compound multiple other possible constraints, particularly in relation to distance farm from farmstead. This study focused on how mountain-area dairy farmers factor geographical characteristics their fields into field-use decisions. To that end, we surveyed 72 who traditional Salers breed cattle ...

dust storms are known as hazardous problems in western part of iran. iraq is one of the main sources for dust storm arriving to the western part of iran. the radial basis function network model (rbfn) has been used to assess wind erosion hazards in the source area of dust storms over several western iranian cities. normalized difference salinity index (ndsi) was used to determine the changes in...

introduction soil infiltration rate is the major soil hydraulic property which can be affected by the soil physical characteristics and management practices. the use of land can affect various soil properties such as physical and hydraulic properties. differences of the hydraulic soil characteristics such as infiltration rate in various land uses can affect their potential to runoff production ...

land use optimization is one of the suitable methods for soil conservation. the present research with objective of land use optimization for soil erosion minimization and pure income maximization was conducted in the part of taleghan watershed which comprises 80427.23 ha in area. to achieve this propose, area, erosion rate and net income value of each land uses according to requiring standards ...