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Growing soil erosion around the world a problem




Soil Erosion what is it why does it effect me? Soil erosion is the loss of top soil from the ground and is a natural occurence. Step in the human race!
               Land is being cleared for farming through deforestation and plouging,this cause the soil to be washed away by the rain and blown by the wind. Leave a field with no plants and it will erode quickly. Every minute we loss 30 football fields worth of top soil to the seas and rivers, It take 1,000 years to generate three centimeters of top soil.
          Some crops can not  hold the soil in place thus increasing erosion on normal arable land these include
  • coffee, 
  • cotton, 
  •  wheat,
  • palm oil,
  •  soybean 

With an incresing global population this is a problem that we could well do without and is not given enough attention by the goverments of the world.

Sources    Scientific American    http://wwf.panda.org   WWF     http://www.botany.uwc.ac.za
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