← 1.1 Soil Conservation Measures
Highlands and ASAL: matching the measure
Agriculture · Grade 8 · about 40 minutes
Wet highland slopes lean on strip cropping, grassed waterways and bunds; dry ASAL land leans on stone lines, trash lines and bunds where soil allows.
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- 9 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
- Your progress kept across every subject you take
Other lessons in this sub-strand
- Why we conserve soil
- Strip cropping
- Grassed waterways
- Stone lines
- Trash lines
- Soil bunds
- Highlands and ASAL: matching the measure
- Surveying the school farm
- A farm model of conservation
- A caring attitude toward soil