Soil Conservation
What happens to a “clean” farm?
How can we coserve the soil?
Our Committment to Sustainable Agricuture
Regular herbicide application to keep the farm “clean”
Where the soil level was before
Where the soil level is today
Drain sides collapsing into the drain
Tea bushes lost with a landslide
Soil surface peeling off, which will be
carried away by rains and winds Mechanical weeding Sickling of soft weeds
Uprooting of hard weeds or spot-spraying of hard weeds
Soft weeds can be used as mulch to add organic matter to the soil.
All weeds can be composted and used as organic fertilizer.
When the tea bushes are young, you can intercrop with beans, such as lentils and soya, to keep the soil surface covered.
Contour planting helps to prevent soil erosion.
Grasses are planted to prevent soil erosion.
Repeated application of herbicide destroys the organic matter and microorganisms
in the soil, and the soil becomes inert. The soil surface gets washed away, and the
drain walls collapse overtime.
Let us stop or
reduce
herbicide, and
bring life back
to the soil.
Very “clean” farm with no weed
Roots of tea bushes getting exposed due to soil erosion
If you do not control the soil erosion, you will continue to
lose your soil. It will eventually start to affect your tea
production.
Drain sides are protected with natural vegetation
Banks are protected with natural vegetation
