BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

25/08/2009

Belarus: erosion threatens to nearly the half of tillable lands

In Belarus, 2.3 mln ha or nearly 45% from the general areas of tillable areas are erosion-dangerous. Nearly 10% of land areas are vulnerable to erosion, declared Vitaliy Lapa, the director of the Institute of soil sciences and agrarian chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.

Erosion became the most significant variety of among all varieties of land degradation in Belarus. Losses of nutrients and humus, worsening of agrophysical and agrochemical features of lands cause the decrease of fertility of eroded land areas. The average shortages of grain harvests at slightly eroded soils totals nearly 12%, at moderately eroded soils - 28%, at severely eroded soils - 40%, shortages of cultivated crops total 20%, 40% and 60% respectively, flaxseed - 15%, 34% and 50% respectively.

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http://www.agrimarket.info/showart.php?id=81671

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