Assessing Soil Erosion by Agricultural and Forestry Production and Proposing Solutions to Mitigate: A Case Study in Son La Province, Vietnam

Table 2

The C factor assigned by land use types in the study area.

Lands	Land use types	C value
1. Rice	Paddy rice/paddy rice	0.55
	Paddy rice/fallow	0.40
	Shifting cultivation	0.21
2. Other annual crops	Annual food and industrial crops	0.21
	Meadow	0.21
3. Perennial plants	Fruit-tree, perennial industrial plants	0.05
	Natural forest (conservation, protection, production)	0.001
	Plantation forest (protection, conservation)	0.001
4. Forestry lands	Plantation forest (production)	0.003
	Natural restoration forest	0.027
5. Shrub and grass lands	Arable lands	0.83
	Hilly and mountainous shrub and grass lands	0.92