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Soil conservation is a set of management strategies for prevention of soil being eroded from the earth’s surface or becoming chemically altered by overuse, salinization, acidification, or other chemical soil contamination. The principal approaches these strategies take are choice of vegetative cover, erosion prevention, salinity management, acidity control, encouraging health of beneficial soil organisms, prevention and remediation of soil contamination and mineralization.