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[someone12345]

In this fort, my main production area is in a soil layer, and the cavern grass is growing everywhere. What can I do, besides pave the whole place with roads to get rid of it?

[iceball3]

Is there a particular reason you want to get rid of it? Grazers can consume cavern grass to stay alive, so that means they can be kept more deeper in your fort.
That said, if you still don't want it, the best thing you could do is move your production area down several levels and use the soil layer for grazers. It'd probably be nicer to have your forges built on some nice firm stone than on soil, yeah?

[Raven]

why everyone hates moss? It's so soft, wet and juicy to touch... *.*

[GiantCaveMushroom]

why everyone hates moss? It's so soft, wet and juicy to touch... *.*

It's too colorful and messy, some people (like me) want to have a monotone looking +fortress floor+ since it's easier on the eye.

To the OP, it's impossible to completely get rid of cave moss on 'subterranean' soil tiles once the cavern is breached unless you make that tile an 'outside' tile (which makes grass grow instead!) or if you pave it.

[Delioth]

Burn it. May require re-burning every few seasons.

[PatrikLundell]

Burning has a rather temporary effect, so it wouldn't be worth it. Paving with roads, floors, channeling away the top layer,... would work. If you find it easier on the eyes covering the ground with stockpiles accepting nothing causes the background to become uniform (and it works to keep saplings from maturing, thus curbing the otherwise inevitable treesplosion).

Note that paving/flooring will require careful material selection if you don't want to replace one set of colorful patterns with another, though.

[PyroTechno]

If you have DFHack, you can use "feature" to hide the cavern layer.

Here's the readme for more information.