Research Article

Assessing Soil Erosion by Agricultural and Forestry Production and Proposing Solutions to Mitigate: A Case Study in Son La Province, Vietnam

Table 2

The C factor assigned by land use types in the study area.

LandsLand use typesC value

1. RicePaddy rice/paddy rice0.55
Paddy rice/fallow0.40
Shifting cultivation0.21
2. Other annual cropsAnnual food and industrial crops0.21
Meadow0.21
3. Perennial plantsFruit-tree, perennial industrial plants0.05
Natural forest (conservation, protection, production)0.001
Plantation forest (protection, conservation)0.001
4. Forestry landsPlantation forest (production)0.003
Natural restoration forest0.027
5. Shrub and grass landsArable lands0.83
Hilly and mountainous shrub and grass lands0.92