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Technological information is used to assess KwaZulu-Natal commercial sugarcane farmers'intra-plot (panel) soil conservation relative to requirements of the Conservation of NaturalResources Act of 1983. Findings indicate that farmers consider enforcement of the Act to beunlikely and that 28 percent of farmers surveyed do not meet adequate intra-panel soilconservation standards. Multiple regression is used to estimate models representing intra-panelsoil conservation adoption and soil conservation effort. Results show that farmers have greaterconservation adoption and effort on their relatively steeper panels and implement soilconservation plans on these panels first. Amongst other factors, education and use of extensioninformation sources are positively related to both conservation adoption and effort, and soilconservation decisions are constrained by financial resources, management time and farmers'technical abilities.
