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What type of crop is planted between harvests to reduce soil erosion?
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∙ 12y ago
This answer maybe different for other countries, but here in North American no such crop exists. Farmers may just leave the field untilled until next year, or not till at all and instead adopt no-till practices for producing next year's harvest.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 8y agoA cover crop. Cover crops are sometimes legumes to help add nitrogen to the soil, sometimes just broad-leaved crops to protect the soil, and sometimes just grasses to help add organic matter to the soil.
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∙ 10y agoSome of these crops are called cover crops.
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Type of crop that is planted between harvests to reduce soil erosion?
Legumes can be planted between harvests to reduce soil erosion. It also helps add nitrogen and other organic matters to the soil.
A crop planted on a field to reduce erosion during the off-season is called?
That is a cover crop.
How can erosion of soil from land that has been strip-mined be best controlled by?
Restoration- which is required by law. Mining companies must post a bond to reclaim land that has been mined. It will be contoured to reduce erosion and seeded with grasses and/or planted with trees.
How can you reduce erosion of topsoil?
We can reduce erosion farting less, burping less and catching rainwater in our mouths
What can be done to reduce the amount of erosion happening?
The planting of more trees can protect soil from wind and water erosion. The terracing of hillsides also helps to reduce the effects of erosion.
What help reduce erosion?
Vegetation.
How do rocks reduce or prevent soil erosion?
It blocks the erosion from happening. That is why it prevents/reduces the effects of erosion
Can afforestation reduce soil erosion?
yes
When people plant vegetation they do what to erosion?
reduce
How do humans reduce erosion?
make dams
How can erosoin on a farm be reduced?
Surrrounding the erosion with trees will in the highest degree help reduce the erosion.
What do trees act as to reduce wind erosion?
Windbreaks
