JAMB - Geography (2023 - No. 58)

The land-use activities which can be considered responsible for soil erosion in the tropics are

irrigation, terrace farming and crop rotation

mining, bush fallowing and market gardening

industrialization, monoculture and lumbering

bush fallowing, overgrazing and monoculture

Industrial activities such as production, construction etc, monoculture and lumbering are responsible for erosion in the tropics