Editorial Notes

Abstract

Soil Conservation. Soil conservation was one of the subjects discussed by the Board of Agriculture at its meeting held at Delhi in March Last Year.The Board,while approving of the progress made in the provinces since their consideration of this topic in 1916.recomended that greater attention should be paid to the pract- ical application of the knowledge already gained and that works similar to those tried in Bombay should be commenced in other provinces.We find in the note sent by the Deputy Director. Southern division.Bombay . to the Board on the experience gained there that the Agriculturaldepartment appointed at first a graduate assistant and latter on two bunding officers to design embankments and waste weirs.to advise the cultivators with regard to their location and construction and also to help them in the securing of the takavi loans from the District collecters.We are sorry to notice however that the beneficial effects which these officers brought about came to a stand-still when their posts were retrenched on grounds of financial stringency and when the interest on the loans was also increased to 8.3%.While even such small lines of work are being stopped as a result of retrenchment in India.we find other countries like the United States of America,Japan,Italy,Java and even the much war-disturbed China recognise the Importance of soil erosion and the associated problems to the nation and are taking concentrated ation on a wide front.An action like the one on the part of the Bombay Government would make one belive that there is perhaps not muh need or scope for the adoption of preventive measures in this country. That this is not so is apparent from a few instances given below.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.002179

Pages

313 - 315

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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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