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Strip cropping

Agriculture · Grade 8 · about 40 minutes

Strip cropping is planting alternate bands of open and close-growing crops across the slope so the dense strip filters runoff and holds soil.

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Other lessons in this sub-strand

  1. Why we conserve soil
  2. Strip cropping
  3. Grassed waterways
  4. Stone lines
  5. Trash lines
  6. Soil bunds
  7. Highlands and ASAL: matching the measure
  8. Surveying the school farm
  9. A farm model of conservation
  10. A caring attitude toward soil