SOIL CONSERVATION IN THE GISBORNE-EAST COAST DISTRICT

To understand soil conservation problems in this district it will be necessary to note at the outset that our problems differ in many respects from those elsewhere in New Zealand, and particularly from those in the U.S.A. and Australia. The literature of soil conservation for the most part reports conditions in the U.S.A. and consequently to most people "soil conservation" conjures up pictures of gently rolling cropping land troubled by sheet and wind erosion and by minor gullying, all of which are brought under control mainly by measures which can be conveniently described as contour farming.