SOIL CONSERVATION

Mobile Works Units

The effectiveness of pasture furrows, graded banks, terraces, grassed waterways, and flood control dams in controlling soil and water movement on arable lands encouraged the Council to provide machinery and technical services, and to plan and install these conservation aids on a demonstration basis where farmers needed them. This work is now carried on by four units controlled by the Department of Agriculture.

• 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.