Impacts of drought on soil resources management in Australia.
Over the last decade the drought has been a visible part of the Australian live, the drought in the Australian agricultural and farming community resulted in a range of social and economic impacts on both the rural and metropolitan residence. Although the impact of the drought has had grave results on the soil resources, other contributors have had a direct impact on the current situation such as European style farming, water drilling, land clearing and other farming practices that are common until today.
Early farming methods in Australia was highly criticised for the focus by planters upon clearing new land and extending acreages (Griggs: 2004), this practice directly eliminated local and native plants and grasses in order to accommodate the new crops for the new settlers. Griggs also pointed out other very important factors along with the wide expansion for extra land; which was the farmer did not routinely......
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