Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2014, 62(5), 883-890 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201462050883

The Impact of Farming and Land Ownership on Soil Erosion

Olga Čermáková1, Miloslav Janeček1, Andrea Jindrová2, Jan Kořínek1
1 Department of Land Use and Improvement, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 21 Praha 6-Suchdol, Czech Republic
2 Department of Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 21 Praha 6-Suchdol, Czech Republic

The aim of this paper was to compare two methods of farming, especially their effect on water soil erosion. The examined methods were (1) large-scale farming, where more than 50% of the land was leased, and (2) small-scale farming, where the land was almost exclusively privately owned. The research area was 8 cadastres in the district of Hodonín, South Moravia, Czech Republic. In these cadastres 48 land blocks representing both large-scale and small-scale farming (i.e. owners and tenants) were chosen. The long-term average annual soil loss caused by water erosion (G) was calculated using the erosion model USLE 2D and ArcGIS 10.1. The nonparametric Mann-Whitney test was used for the statistical evaluation of the data. The difference between the soil loss (G) on land blocks farmed by small producers (owners) and large producers (tenants) was significant (p < 0.05). Differences between the values of the cropping-management factor (C) were not statistically significant (p = 0.054). Based on the analysis of other variables in the USLE equation it can be stated that a continuous slope length, conditioned by the size of land blocks, played an important role in the amount of soil loss caused by water erosion. Above all, to protect the soil from erosion and maintain soil quality it is necessary to reduce the size of land blocks farmed by tenants and improve the crop rotation systems.

Keywords: water soil erosion, erosion control, intensive agriculture, land ownership, crop rotation, South Moravia
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This paper was supported by the Internal Grant Agency of the Faculty of Environment (No. 20134276).

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Čermáková, O., Janeček, M., Jindrová, A., & Kořínek, J. (2014). The Impact of Farming and Land Ownership on Soil Erosion. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 62(5), 883-890. doi: 10.11118/actaun201462050883
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