Modern methods of agriculture have contributed to the problem of soil depletion because many of these methods what

Because they interfere witht he natural cycling of elements.

An example is crop harvesting. The practice of removing part or all of the crops grown from the soil accelerates the loss of nutrients from the soil. The cycling of nutrients from plant uptake and release is interrupted by crop removal.

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