{"id":7708,"date":"2024-02-26T18:38:01","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T18:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=7708"},"modified":"2024-02-26T18:38:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T18:38:01","slug":"physical-assessment-and-social-judgement-of-wind-erosion-and-possible-restoration-in-the-drylands-of-western-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=7708","title":{"rendered":"Physical assessment and social judgement of wind erosion and possible restoration in the drylands of western Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><strong>Noha Mutwali<sup>(1)*<\/sup>., Mohamad Ballal<sup>(2)<\/sup>, and Adel Farah<sup>(3)<\/sup><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">(1). Forestry and Gum Arabic Research Centre, Sudan<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">(2). Freelancer: Natural resources\u2019 management expert, Sudan<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">\u00a0(3). Soba Research Station for Reclaiming Saline and Sodic Soils, Sudan<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">(*Corresponding author: Dr. Noha Mutwali, email<em>:<\/em><a href=\"mailto:nuhamutwali@yahoo.com\">nuhamutwali@yahoo.com<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Received:4\/08\/2023\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Accepted: 20\/08\/2022<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; font-size: 17px;\"><strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; font-size: 17px;\">This study was conducted in July 2022 in\u00a0\u00a0 North Kordofan State (latitudes 11.15<sup>o<\/sup> &#8211; 16.45<sup>o<\/sup>N; longitudes 27.05<sup>o<\/sup> &#8211; 32<sup>o<\/sup>E) in western Sudan on an inherently impoverished sandy soil highly vulnerable to wind erosion. The aim of the study is to assess wind erosion and its social and environmental impacts and the use of shelterbelts as erosion control measures. Various sand traps were used for measuring the sand accumulation. Social surveys were conducted to assess the drivers of land degradation and avoiding it these reasons. The results reveal the highest soil accumulation (70.0ton ha<sup>-1<\/sup> year<sup>-1<\/sup>) was obtained at the 15 cm trap height. Soil accumulation\u00a0 at the 30cm and the 45cm high traps was also high (&gt;40ton ha<sup>-1<\/sup> year<sup>-1<\/sup>). The study proved that wind is blowing at different levels carrying the soil particles. Disc-ploughing on sandy soils, is the main driver of land degradation followed by overcutting of trees. However, drought, lack of improved seed and poverty are the main\u00a0 constraints to agricultural production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><strong>Key words: <\/strong>wind erosion, Soil accumulation, sand traps, shelterbelts. Social impacts, environmental impact.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Full paper in English: <a href=\"http:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/wp-content\/uploads\/v11n1p34-2.pdf\">pdf<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noha Mutwali(1)*., Mohamad Ballal(2), and Adel Farah(3) (1). Forestry and Gum Arabic Research Centre, Sudan (2). Freelancer: Natural resources\u2019 management expert, Sudan \u00a0(3). Soba Research Station for Reclaiming Saline and Sodic Soils, Sudan (*Corresponding author: Dr. Noha Mutwali, email:nuhamutwali@yahoo.com) Received:4\/08\/2023\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=7708\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sjar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7711,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7708\/revisions\/7711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}