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  1. Library Resource

    Land Use Policy Volume 67

    Peer-reviewed publication
    September, 2017
    Russia, United States of America

    Russia’s region of Chernozem and Kastanozem soils in Western-Siberia, where this study focused on the Kulunda steppe, has great potential as a carbon sink, particularly if the current widespread practice of burning crop residue can be replaced with conservation tillage practices that will return the residue to the soil. Environmentally-oriented land use policy measures have been introduced that could accomplish that goal. But these measures are quite recent, and face obstacles in the prevailing post-socialist institutional environment and in cultural norms.

  2. Library Resource

    Land Use Policy Volume 67

    Peer-reviewed publication
    September, 2017
    China, Russia, United States of America

    Using a qualitative social research method at the local administrative level, this paper provides insight into the policy process in China and farmers’ perceptions of the effectiveness of policies implemented to deal with drought. Two villages in rural South-West Yunnan were purposefully selected for the study. The research started with the general assumption that China has a strong top-down hierarchal approach to policy processes and that funding dispersal is prioritised by the central government.

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2017
    Russia

    The experience of space images use for creation of land use map for the terriotory of the Svetloyar irrigation system and neighboring households is considered. The investigation territory is located in the north-west area on the right bank part of Kaspian lowland (Volgograd region). The land use map reflects the actual conditions of the object and contains the information about the fields under different crops and mixed-age laylands.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2017
    Russia

    The major natural factors negatively impacting the properties of solonetzes of the northern forest-steppe of Baraba Steppe were found and stability of the meliorandscapes of the steppe including reclaimed solonetzes was defined. The field research was done in 2006-2016. Cortical hydromorphic solonetzes, reclaimed by gypsum in 1986 in four replications, were studied. The following variants of the experiment were compared: control (without gypsum), 11, 45 and 65 t/ha. Till 1996 cereal crop rotation was cultivated, and in 1996 meliolandscape was abandoned.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2017
    Russia

    The final purpose of a package of works on recultivation is to create the desired conditions for activity of phyto-ameliorant crops (melilot, alfalfa), legume bacteria and oil oxidizing bacteria for cuttings slurry (CS) development. The activity parameters of legumes bacteria were studied in laboratory experiments on bean agar which showed that the introduction of calcium in the nutrient mixture 7 or more times increases the number of these bacteria in comparison with soda salinization.

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2017
    Russia

    The paper proves the necessity of making a system of technologies and machines for feed production as a necessary factor in the development of livestock breeding. The promising resource-saving technological groups include: radical improvement of natural forage lands; surface improvement of artificial hayfields and pastures and maintaining their productive service life with the use of combined machines; accelerated grassing of natural forage lands; and growing forage crops on the arable land.

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