Open AccessSOIL CONSERVATION IN THE GISBORNE-EAST COAST DISTRICT
Author(s) -
A.D. Todd
Publication year - 1959
Publication title -
proceedings of the new zealand grassland association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1179-4577
pISSN - 0369-3902
DOI - 10.33584/jnzg.1959.21.1103
Subject(s) - soil conservation , soil loss , agriculture , cropping , erosion , geography , agroforestry , hydrology (agriculture) , environmental science , geology , archaeology , geomorphology , geotechnical engineering
To understand soil conservation problems in this district it will be necessary to note at the outset that our problems differ in many respects from those elsewhere in New Zealand, and particularly from those in the U.S.A. and Australia. The literature of soil conservation for the most part reports conditions in the U.S.A. and consequently to most people "soil conservation" conjures up pictures of gently rolling cropping land troubled by sheet and wind erosion and by minor gullying, all of which are brought under control mainly by measures which can be conveniently described as contour farming.