Soil Erosion Magnitude of Upland Farming Practices in Bataan

There were factors affecting erosion such as climate, soil type, vegetation and topography. Upland
areas were denuding exponentially due to the fact that those people looking for livelihood had little
concern and awareness on environmental sustainability and management. Upland farming practices
that was easy like weeding, pest control and fertilization were often carried out without soil erosion
control and water management. The result of the study revealed that an area with intercropped
permanent crops has less amount of soil eroded or tolerable annual soil loss. But the areas with short
duration crops (cash crops) and which adopted the same cropping pattern from the previous season
resulted to severe soil erosion. Calculated annual soil erosion were 3.33, 4.57, 23.18, 0.31 tons and
zero erosion for Site 1, Site 2, Site 3, Site 4, and Site 5, respectively.