Ecologically Safe Architecture of Agrolandscape Is Basis for Sustainable Development

Kotlyarova, Ekaterina G. and Cherniavskih, Vladimir I. and Dumacheva, Elena V. (2012) Ecologically Safe Architecture of Agrolandscape Is Basis for Sustainable Development. Sustainable Agriculture Research, 2 (2). pp. 11-23. ISSN 1927-050X

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Abstract

Worldwide, about 12x106 ha of arable land are destroyed and abandoned annually due to soil erosion. This problem is very serious for Krasnogvardeiskiy district, which is most eroded district (72.7% eroded lands) in the Central Chernozem Zone (CCZ) of Russia. Under the leadership of the academician of Russian Academy of Agrarian Sciences O.G. Kotlyarova the landscape agricultural systems (LASs) were mastered throughout the Krasnogvardeisky district (132 thousand ha). Our investigations showed that the purpose for which LASs were created is reached. Obtained results showed that it is possible to prevent erosive losses and to raise soil fertility. Restoration of soil fertility is presented in terms of increasing of crops productivity-on 25%. Transformation of a landscape basis has increased the general biological capacity of territory more than twice and exchangeable biological capacity by 32%. All these facts have raised assimilability of the transformed territory that allows to consider it, unlike traditional, not as source ??2 in atmosphere, and as fixed carbon tank which capacity can reach 0,71 t/ha. In turn the intensification of substances circulation leads to increasing of plant production efficiency. Excess is from 14% (productivity of labour expenses) to 43.2% (use efficiency of PAR). In intensively mastered agricultural district (arable lands more than 80%) agroecosystems have been formed, allowing besides its basic function: soil preservation, steady reception of agricultural production, to carry out also the major biospheric function - increasing biological variety, creation of a favorable inhabitancy for live organisms, including human.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: STM One > Agricultural and Food Science
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Date Deposited: 17 Jun 2023 06:50
Last Modified: 21 May 2024 12:43
URI: http://publications.openuniversitystm.com/id/eprint/1402

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