Research Article
Assessing Soil Erosion by Agricultural and Forestry Production and Proposing Solutions to Mitigate: A Case Study in Son La Province, Vietnam
Table 6
Soil loss caused by different cultivation measures in Muong Bo.
| No | Measures | Soil loss (ton·ha−1) | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | Average |
| 1 | Cultivating based on contour lines | 63.34 | 62.53 | 61.23 | 62.37 | 2 | Cultivating following terraces | 40.54 | 39.67 | 38.43 | 39.55 | 3 | Cultivating terraces, planting strips of grass. | - | 18.33 | 18.12 | 18.23 | 4 | Cultivating terraces, combining plantation of strips of grass and intercropping legumes (beans). | - | 14.43 | 14.63 | 14.53 |
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2014 is year in which the measures began carrying out because the strips of grass have not grown stably. |