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2017, N 2 (28) |
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SOIL SCIENCE
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Kirillova V., Alyabina I. |
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Crop growing of the Nizhny Novgorod region in the XIX and XXI centuries |
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The features of crop growing in the Nizhny Novgorod gubernia/region in the XIX and XXI centuries are considered. The historical materials contained in the reports of the Nizhny Novgorod expedition under the leadership of V.V. Dokuchaev were used. They include 14 volumes on the natural science of the study and 11 volumes of economic statistics, which are a summary of the general data on the situation of the peasant economy, that is, information about the number of arable land, including fertilized, hayfields, forests, manure stocks, livestock, harvest volumes, proportions of cultivated crops. Similar information on areas of cultivated crops in 2006 was obtained from the Federal State Statistics Service for the Nizhny Novgorod region. All statistical information on uezds and districts was entered into the GIS, processed and visualized in a series of thematic maps.
To assess the efficiency of land use in the XIX and XXI centuries, the map «Agricultural zoning of Russia for optimal crop growing» by I.I. Karmanov and D.S. Bulgakov was used (National Soil Atlas of Russian Federation, 2011).
A joint analysis of the collected information made it possible to identify the characteristic features of agriculture in the XIX and XXI centuries.
Keywords: LAND USE, SOIL QUALITY, HISTORICAL SOURCES, GEOINFORMATION SYSTEMS |