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Soil conservation is a key text not only for the agricultural engineers, but also for students for agriculture, forestry, geography, geology and ecology-indeed all those concerned with soil erosion. This new and fully revised edition of the Norman Hudson standard book: 01. Gives information on recent advances, including the greater emphasis on sound land use and farming methods, the importance of involving the farmer at all stages, the need for low-cost, low labour methods. 02. Shows how research, theory and practice can be applied in the developing countries like India. 03. Presents the engineering approach to soil conservation in a single common sense way. The text reflects the course in soil sciences and agronomy as taught to students of various Indian universities. The results a teaching test which will be of use to all countries where soil conservation is a major consideration to agricultural development.

Contents: 1. Man and soil erosion. 2. The mechanics of erosion. 3. The physics of rainfall. 4. The erosivity of rainfall. 5. The erodibility of soil. 6. The estimation of surface runoff. 7. Estimating soil loss. 8. Erosion research methods. 9. Land use and soil conservation. 10. Physical erosion control measures. 11. Erosion control through land husbandry. 12. Gully erosion. 13. Erosion control on non-arable land. 14. Policies and implementation.