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Chile – Cauquenes<br />

The Cauquenes area has cereals, <strong>for</strong>est plantations, grass and shrubland as the main land use types. The main land degradation<br />

process, affecting all main land use types, is soil erosion by water due to inappropriate land management, soil mining, destruction<br />

of natural woodland vegetation. As a result, soil fertility depletion affects the sustainability of traditional crop production.<br />

Existing conservation measures include conservation agriculture and mulching in response to soil erosion and fertility decline in<br />

grassland and cropland. Their effectiveness is mapped as low, but with a tendency to increase. Rehabilitation of the cropland<br />

and grassland and shrubland is recommended by experts <strong>for</strong> the largest part of the degraded area. This book describes no tillage<br />

preceded by subsoiling and crop rotations with legumes as new conservation measures <strong>for</strong> the area under cropland.<br />

250 DESIRE – WOCAT <strong>Desire</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Greener</strong> <strong>Land</strong>

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