Research Article
Assessing Soil Erosion by Agricultural and Forestry Production and Proposing Solutions to Mitigate: A Case Study in Son La Province, Vietnam
Table 3
The
value is based on land use types and farming practices.
| Land use types | Farming practices | |
| Paddy rice/fallow | Planting on beds, slope <8o | 0.1 | Paddy rice/annual food crop | Shifting cultivation | Planting on terraces, slope > 15o | 0.8 | Annual food and industrial crops | Planting on terraces, slope ≤ 15o | 0.6 | Meadow | No conservation practices | 1.0 | Fruit-tree | Planting based on lines, terraces, and strips | 0.35 | Perennial industrial plants | Plantation forest | Planting terraces, slope above 15o | 0.9 | Natural forest | No conservation practices | 1.0 | Natural restoration forest | Arable lands | No conservation practices | 1.0 | Hilly and mountainous shrub and grass lands |
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