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

Table 3

The value is based on land use types and farming practices.

Land use types	Farming practices
Paddy rice/fallow	Planting on beds, slope <8^o	0.1
Paddy rice/annual food crop
Shifting cultivation	Planting on terraces, slope > 15^o	0.8
Annual food and industrial crops	Planting on terraces, slope ≤ 15^o	0.6
Meadow	No conservation practices	1.0
Fruit-tree	Planting based on lines, terraces, and strips	0.35
Perennial industrial plants
Plantation forest	Planting terraces, slope above 15^o	0.9
Natural forest	No conservation practices	1.0
Natural restoration forest
Arable lands	No conservation practices	1.0
Hilly and mountainous shrub and grass lands