<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> In Russia, the cultivated fields represent a major issue. According to various estimates, they occupy 20-40 million hectares. Of course, this is a great reserve for the development of agriculture and, if necessary, production of in-demand crops. However, if the fields are not used for a long term, they become gradually overgrown with weeds during quarantine: ragweed, hogweed, shrubs and trees. Subsequent introduction of these fields in turnover requires multiple treatments of the soil and the use of potent herbicides due to the high cost of the uprooting of trees. Based on the decisions of the Russian Federation on land conservation, the land management project defining the terms of land conservation, prevention of land degradation, restoring of soil fertility and bringing of life to contaminated areas as well as the order of how these activities should be carried out and their cost and suggestions for land use after the completion of the mentioned processes was developed. However, the technology of land conservation is yet to be developed.</p></abstract>

In Russia, the cultivated fields represent a major issue. According to various estimates, they occupy 20-40 million hectares. Of course, this is a great reserve for the development of agriculture and, if necessary, production of in-demand crops. However, if the fields are not used for a long term, they become gradually overgrown with weeds during quarantine: ragweed, hogweed, shrubs and trees. Subsequent introduction of these fields in turnover requires multiple treatments of the soil and the use of potent herbicides due to the high cost of the uprooting of trees. Based on the decisions of the Russian Federation on land conservation, the land management project defining the terms of land conservation, prevention of land degradation, restoring of soil fertility and bringing of life to contaminated areas as well as the order of how these activities should be carried out and their cost and suggestions for land use after the completion of the mentioned processes was developed. However, the technology of land conservation is yet to be developed.

Jerusalem Artichoke as a Means of Fields Conservation

All-Russian Research Institute of Potato Farming named after A. G. Lorch,

Russian State Agrarian University – Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, Faculty of Processes and Machines in Agribusiness, Department of Agricultural Machines, Moscow,

Acta Technologica Agriculturae

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In Russia, the cultivated fields represent a major issue. According to various estimates, they occupy 20-40 million hectares. Of course, this is a great...

Jerusalem Artichoke as a Means of Fields Conservation

Data publikacji: 16 mar 2017

Zakres stron: 7 - 10

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ata-2017-0002

Słowa kluczowe
Jerusalem artichoke, conservation, green mass, rotations

© Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Jerusalem Artichoke as a Means of Fields Conservation

Data publikacji: 16 mar 2017

Zakres stron: 7 - 10

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ata-2017-0002

Słowa kluczoweJerusalem artichoke, conservation, green mass, rotations

© Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Słowa kluczowe
Jerusalem artichoke, conservation, green mass, rotations