AGEN 0111: LAND SURVEY, SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION, IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE

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Land degradation is a process that lowers the current potential capability of land to produce goods such as crops, livestock, timber etc or provide services such as unpolluted water. Causes of land degradation; Soil erosion (by water and wind) Fertility degradation (loss of plant nutrients, chemicals, physical and biological degradation) Degradation of vegetative cover. Degradation of water resources.
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