What are the results of soil becoming worthless?
1. The reduction and/or the loss of nutrients (food).
2. Plants become unhealthy or die. Unhealthy plants can pass on diseases to animals that eat them. There are many things which cause unhealthy plants, such as drought, soil erosion, floods and man made poisons.
3. Soil acidity is when the soil becomes salty or acidic because of salinization or man make chemicals. Nothing will grow in soil which is too acid or too salty.
Soil conservation
As we have seen, soil erosion and the destruction of the nutrient value of the soil are not good for plants. We should find effective ways to make the soil healthy again.
- We can plants crops such as the bean or grass families to cover al the soil and prevent soil erosion.