describe any two ways to conserve. a.water b.soil ( i need immediate help and i want very long and do not spam or i will report him/her)
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to conserve and enhance soil quality as the first step to environmental improvement;
to increase the efficiency with which nutrients, pesticides, and irrigation water are used in agricultural production;
to increase the resistance of farming systems to erosion and runoff; and
to make greater use of field and landscape buffer zones.
These opportunities should be the goals that policies to protect soil and water resources seek to achieve. Chapter 3 recommended that soil and water quality programs target resources at problem areas and problem farms and use a farming system, rather than a best-management practice approach, to take advantage of the technical opportunities to prevent soil degradation and water pollution. Chapter 3 also outlined the improved tools and information that producers and program managers will need to implement a farming system approach to managing soil and water resources. Federal, state, and local programs could be made much more effective if these steps were taken.
There is considerable scientific and technical information on how to prevent soil degradation and water pollution, as the chapters in Part Two of this report demonstrate. Although gaps remain to be filled in
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Suggested Citation:"4 Policies to Protect Soil and Water Quality." National Research Council. 1993. Soil and Water Quality: An Agenda for Agriculture. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2132.
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technology and information, the more important obstacle to improving soil and water quality is the lack of incentives for producers to use the knowledge and technology that already exists.