SOIL CONSERVATION

Demonstration Farms

With the assistance of vital information on the capacity of land for permanent production, together with the various conservation and management practices necessary to control erosion and flooding, it is now possible to demonstrate conservation farming on a planned-farm basis on the various experimental and cooperative demonstration farms run in conjunction with catchment boards. Experience on these farms has proved that conservation management not only controls erosion but also increases the carrying capacity considerably.

• The First 100 Years

• Soil Conservation Act 1941

• Developing Soil Conservation Practices

• Conservation Surveys

• Demonstration Farms

• Aerial Topdressing

• Mobile Works Units

• Subsidised Conservation Works

• Catchment Control

• Information and Publicity

• Catchment Board and Catchment Commissions

Warning

This information was published in 1966 in An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. It has not been corrected and will not be updated.

Up-to-date information can be found elsewhere in Te Ara.