111.   This include ensuring minimal damage to residual stand, adverse environmental impact and leaving sufficient and adequate buffer zones along rivers and streams to mitigate soil erosion.

112.   Thousands of people have been forced to flee the basin region in recent years as continued soil erosion has left their homes precariously close to the river banks.

113.   Vegetable farming has low productivity, soil erosion, declining water supply, and increasing pests and diseases.

114.   When completed, the jetty will divert the water flow toward the Vietnamese river bank, causing intensive soil erosion, the report said.

115.   Wheat farmers, for example, must till their soil more frequently if they choose organic pest control over conventional spraying, and that raises concerns about soil erosion.

116.   Works Minister Singilimuthu Samy Vellu told reporters that soil erosion and stagnant water are believed to have cause the landslide.

117.   But the crisp air and whistling of birds is spoilt by murky water caused by land clearing and fallen trees across the river caused by soil erosion.

118.   Chinese environmentalists have long expressed concerns that soil erosion that carved away the famous Loess Plateau along the Yellow River was well underway along the Yangtze.

119.   China has launched a vast reforestation effort to fight soil erosion and desertification and to develop commercial forests.

120.   Deforestation also caused increased soil erosion, flooding, pollution and global warming, the meeting heard.