<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The contribution brings detail characteristics of the so-called white areas. It aims to describe white areas on the basis of selected attributes of agricultural land (such as typological-productive categories of agricultural land, potential level of cost-effectivness at crops growing, primary, secondary and other agricultural soil funds) and to compare these results with the results of procedures applied in the APVV project Waste lands and landscape abandoning in Slovakia as well as to highlight discrepancies in delimitation of both forest and agricultural soil fund. Nearly 80% of the Slovak white areas is situated on potential uneconomic agricultural soils, most of white areas (70%) is situated on the other agricultural soil fund and 25% of forests on non-forest land are not registered in the agricultural soil fund.</p></abstract>

The contribution brings detail characteristics of the so-called white areas. It aims to describe white areas on the basis of selected attributes of agricultural land (such as typological-productive categories of agricultural land, potential level of cost-effectivness at crops growing, primary, secondary and other agricultural soil funds) and to compare these results with the results of procedures applied in the APVV project Waste lands and landscape abandoning in Slovakia as well as to highlight discrepancies in delimitation of both forest and agricultural soil fund. Nearly 80% of the Slovak white areas is situated on potential uneconomic agricultural soils, most of white areas (70%) is situated on the other agricultural soil fund and 25% of forests on non-forest land are not registered in the agricultural soil fund.

„Biele plochy“ z pohľadu pustnutia kultúrnej poľnohospodárskej krajiny

Fakulta prírodných vied Univerzity Mateja Bela, Katedra geografie, geológie a krajinnej ekológie, Tajovského 40, SK – 974 01 Banská Bystrica

Inštitút výskumu krajiny a regiónov – Centrum vedy a výskumu UMB, Fakulta prírodných vied Univerzity Mateja Bela, Cesta na amfiteáter 1, SK – 974 01 Banská Bystrica

Národné lesnícke centrum - Lesnícky výskumný ústav Zvolen, T. G. Masaryka 22, SK – 960 92 Zvolen

Central European Forestry Journal

The contribution brings detail characteristics of the so-called white areas. It aims to describe white areas on the basis of selected attributes of...

„Biele plochy“ z pohľadu pustnutia kultúrnej poľnohospodárskej krajiny

Published Online: Oct 31, 2012

Page range: 121 - 128

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10114-011-0013-z

Keywords
“white areas”, abandoning of agricultural land, forest on non-forest land, Slovakia

This content is open access.

„Biele plochy“ z pohľadu pustnutia kultúrnej poľnohospodárskej krajiny

Published Online: Oct 31, 2012

Page range: 121 - 128

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10114-011-0013-z

Keywords“white areas”, abandoning of agricultural land, forest on non-forest land, Slovakia

This content is open access.

Keywords
“white areas”, abandoning of agricultural land, forest on non-forest land, Slovakia