What are the economic incentives and support mechanisms provided by soil quality protection policies and plans to encourage farmers and landowners to adopt sustainable soil management practices?
Soil conservation is key to environmental sustainability: It helps protect natural resources and watersheds, restores habitats for plants and wildlife, improves water quality, and makes soil healthier. Soil conservation also creates economic opportunity. The Government of India is implementing a five-pronged strategy for soil conservation. This includes making soil chemical-free, saving soil biodiversity, enhancing SOM, maintaining soil moisture, mitigating soil degradation and preventing soil erosion. Improve urban planning and transport planning and waste water treatment. Improve the management of mining waste, restore the landscape and conserve topsoil. Simply planting trees is a good conservation method as it secures topsoil and erosion is prevented. Sow grass and plant shrubs and other greenery in bare spots in your yard or garden. The foliage will absorb excess water and protect the topsoil from the impact of rain, heavy wind and foot traffic.Crop rotation, cover crops, conservation tillage, and installed windbreaks are methods for better soil conservation that have an impact on both erosions as well as fertility. To reduce all forms of soil erosion from Agricultural Land by Soil Moisture Conservation works and increase agricultural productivity in sustained manner without deteriorating the soil health. Soil conservation is the process where the soil is protected against loss. It is the process of preventing of loss of the top layer of soil. It helps to protect natural resources. It protects the habitat for plants and wildlife.
I agree with Rana Hamza Shakil that Government of India is implementing a five-pronged strategy for soil conservation. This includes making soil chemical-free, saving soil biodiversity, enhancing SOM, maintaining soil moisture, mitigating soil degradation and preventing soil erosion. Improve urban planning and transport planning and waste water treatment. Improve the management of mining waste, restore the landscape and conserve topsoil. Simply planting trees is a good conservation method as it secures topsoil and erosion is prevented. Sow grass and plant shrubs and other greenery in bare spots in your yard or garden. The foliage will absorb excess water and protect the topsoil from the impact of rain, heavy wind and foot traffic.Crop rotation, cover crops, conservation tillage, and installed windbreaks are methods for better soil conservation that have an impact on both erosions as well as fertility. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate change implemented the National River Conservation Programme, sub-schemes of Conservation of Natural Resources and Ecosystems, Green India Mission, and National Afforestation Programme, National Coastal Management Programme, National Mission on Himalayan Studies. Formalisation of national parks, wildlife sanctuaries, conservation reserves and community reserves. Protection to habitat and wildlife within premises of such protected areas. Development of National Board for Wildlife and State Boards for Wildlife for identification of future protected areas.The Ministry is responsible for addressing the issues: Promote the protection, restoration, and conservation of ecosystems, natural resources, goods, and environmental services and facilitate their use and sustainable development. Develop and implement a national policy on natural resources.