LAND CONSERVATION – GENERAL

Land (soil) is the basis of man's existence and is a finite (and degradable) resource that must be preserved and cultivated. Because of natural conditions and/or different land uses, processes that damage and deplete the soil are created, resulting in impaired "carrying" (production) capacity and causing (sometimes irreversible) damage to agriculture and the environment.

Reducing the runoff and river wash at the catchment area enriches the soil and reduces the damage to downstream infrastructures.

The Land Conservation Approach:

From the agricultural perspective - creating conditions for soil conservation and improving attributes such as reduced dredging, flood protection, water conservation, salination prevention, and more, in accordance with the crops and the agricultural interface.

From the environmental perspective - reducing runoff and erosion and flood mitigation, soil enrichment with a variety of species, groundwater enrichment, carbon dioxide fixation, and more.

Methods for implementing land conservation:

Engineering Methods - agricultural field planning, geometric changes, and routing runoff into land conservation facilities (such as shrubs), protection and suspension systems, flow stabilization, saline flushing in underground drainage systems, and more.

Agricultural Methods - stabilization by using cover plants, area cultivating and management in a conserving interface and area management.

The reduction of runoff and erosion using the basin treatment approach combines the various agricultural and engineering measures over the entire basin area, beginning with the impact point of the raindrop.