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What is one solution to counter water erosion on hillside fields?
What is one solution to counter water erosion on hillside fields?
Planting fast-growing trees among the crops or building terraces and small dams to hold the soil on the hillside fields.
What is one way to balance out soil use on palm oil plantations?
What is one way to balance out soil use on palm oil plantations?
Ecological farmers plant many different crops in the same ground to help balance out soil use and fertilizer can be made from byproducts of the plantations own production.
Why is the rain forest floor unsuitable for industrial agriculture?
Why is the rain forest floor unsuitable for industrial agriculture?
The rain forest floor is poor in nutrients but rich in oxygen.
