Strip cropping and oil handling...?

(i) Strip cropping involves planting crops in strips across the slope, with alternate strips of grain and/or forage crops. Strip cropping combines the soil and moisture conservation properties of cross-slope farming with the soil building advantages of a crop rotation and is more effective in reducing soil losses.



Strip cropping can reduce erosion rates by seventy-five percent if potatoes are grown in a three year rotation with grain and hay compared to farming up and down the slope using the same rotation. Strip cropping has the added benefit of reduced horsepower and fuel requirements.

(ii) Companies get more cautious about how the handle the oil, this in turn causes less spills, and more technology is invested to prevent such accidents from occurring.