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MITIGATION
- Soil and Water Conservation
- Crop rotation
- Contoured rowcrops
- Terracing
- Tillage practices
- Erosion-control structures
- Water retention and detention structures
- Windbreaks and shelterbelts (Fig. 1)
- Litter management
- Reclamation of salt-affected soil
- Engineering measures
- Contour bunds, trenches and stone walls
- Check dams and other gully-plugging structures (Fig. 2)
- Percolation ponds
- Herd management
- Reduction in herd numbers
- Strategic weaning of calves
- Herd segregation
- Parasite control
- Optimizing use of drought-affected paddock
- Attention to contaminated water supplies
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