Evaluation of Nutrient Trapping by Vetiver Grass

This book showed that Vetiver Grass has significant impacts on soil conservation and nutrient trapping.It improves most of the soil physicochemical properties and soil productivity due to the fact that vetiver plants form hedges or a living porous barrier, which slows and spreads runoff water and traps sediment. And the author recommends that vetiver grass system is an effective soil conservation system in trapping nutrients at low cost and the use of vetiver grass is recommended as an affordable and sustainable soil management practice to improve soil fertility.