Creation of artificial pasturable phytocenosis at north desert subzone
Type: Technologies
Creation: 2011-06-05 21:35 Updated: 2025-08-27 18:33
Compilers: Unknown User
Reviewers: Rima Mekdaschi Studer, David Streiff, Alexandra Gavilano
Country/ region/ locations where the Technology has been applied and which are covered by this assessment
- Country: Kazakhstan
- Region/ State/ Province: Jambyl, Almaty oblasts.
- Further specification of location (e.g. municipality, town, etc.), if relevant: South Pribalkhashye, Eastern part of sand Moynkum massif
Description of the SLM Technology
Short description of the Technology
Selection fodder plants and the technology of their cultivation for maximal use of poor soil water in desert
Detailed description of the Technology
1. Artificial fodder rangelands in desert are created in strong degraded sites by sowing of fodder subshrubs and perennial forbs.
2. The list of the fittest fodder plants, which can maximally effective use the poor desert soil resources, is established
3. The most capable plants belong to Chenopodiacia family: Kohia p., Salsola o., Ceratoides p., Artemisia t., to Areminea family – Agropyrum desertorum.
4. The preparation of soil for sowing is of sparing sort of under-winter ploughing (spike-tooth disk harrow). Sowing of subshrubs is carried out under winter in treated soil with sowing standard 2 million germinating seeds per 1 hectare. Agropyrum d. is sowed in early spring. Before sowing seeds are mixed in equal quantities at total sowing standard 2 million germinating seeds per 1 hectare.
5. The grazing is prohibited in the first year. It is possible to use the sowed site moderately since the latter half of the second year.
The cost of 1 hectare is 2700-3100 tenge with taking into account petrol, salary etc.
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