soil+management

**Soil Management**


 * Government has put effort to re-plant trees on more barren hills and successfully put soil erosion under control in some areas.
 * China has brought 830,000 sq km of soil erosion under control
 * In 2003 China planned to put a total of 83 billion yuan into stopping soil erosion by construction more than 160,000 dams along the Yellow River
 * There is now a drive launched to have farmers test their soil before applying the correct amount of fertilizer
 * Trying to increase the use of organic fertilizers instead of the chemical ones that many people are using.