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Soil Erosion Management for Agricultural Sustainability

Soil is a dynamic, living resource that is essential to the sustainable production of food and to maintain global biogeochemical cycling and ecosystem functioning. However, the combination of intensive farming activities, improper farming practices, rainfall regimes and topography conditions that takes place in agricultural land leads to soil erosion. In order to ensure food and environmental security of huge population, the pressure on agricultural system is tremendously increasing. The areas with human intervention have high rate of soil erosion of 2.4 t ha-1 yr-1 (Bhat et al. 2019). The control and prevention of soil erosion necessitate the development of an integral soil erosion control system with the incorporating methods based on the engineering, agricultural cultivation technology, law enforcement, biological methods, land planning, and management.