Using waste soil to rehabilitate degraded agricultural lands: environmental burden as resource

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eli Argaman ◽  
Nir Becker ◽  
Smadar Tanner ◽  
Meni Ben-Hur ◽  
Jose Gruenzweig ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Crop Production ◽  
Agricultural Soil ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Land Reclamation ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Agricultural Lands ◽  
Environmental Burden ◽  
Organic Carbon Concentration ◽  
Waste Soil

<p>The global expansion of infrastructures is generating vast amounts of waste soil (soil excavated from construction sites that cannot be used on-site); the amount of waste soil accumulated in the European Union in 2014 was estimated at 463 x 10<sup>6</sup> tons. The regulation and management of waste soil disposal are currently limited to: (1) local use for various engineering projects; (2) stockpiling on-site for future use; (3) transferal to landfills, which are currently overfilled, as padding material or for disposal. Despite a number of permitted actions for handling waste soil, a significant portion of it is disposed of in the area surrounding the construction site, thus raising the risk of pollution and landscape spoilage. Waste soils are commonly excavated from deep layers, and are therefore saline, sodic, and lack organic matter, preventing their use without pre-treatment. Moreover, due to the intensification of crop production, one-third of the global agricultural land area is susceptible to soil loss by erosion, constituting ~50% of total estimated soil erosion. Here we show a new approach for environmentally, agronomically and economically sustainable use of reclaimed waste soil to rehabilitate degraded agricultural land. In a 3-year field experiment under rain-fed conditions in a semi-arid region of Israel, we found that waste soil ploughed into agricultural soil had low erodibility, similar to that of the original agricultural soil, despite its high sodicity. Waste soil application tended to decrease the soil organic carbon concentration but had no detrimental effect on wheat hay yield or wheat grain yield or quality in the second and third year, respectively. The economic analysis suggested an average reduction of 8.7 million USD in waste soil disposal costs if 50% of the waste soil produced in Israel annually were to be utilized in agricultural fields. Thus, waste soil can be utilized successfully in degraded agricultural lands; this opens a new route to land reclamation and provides land managers and stakeholders with a sustainable way to reduce costs while transforming an environmental burden into a resource.</p>

scholarly journals Economics of Stony Land Reclamation for Crop Production in South-Western Quebec

1986 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-116
Author(s):  
Randolph Seecharan ◽  
Kisan Gunjal ◽  
Gerard Millette
Keyword(s):  
Crop Production ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Crop Yields ◽  
Land Reclamation ◽  
Programming Model ◽  
Parametric Programming ◽  
Economic Feasibility ◽  
Market Prices ◽  
Market Values ◽  
Representative Farms

Linear programming model is used to investigate the economic feasibility of utilizing stony lands for crop production in South-Western Quebec where stoniness is the major constraint. Results for the representative farms indicate that income variations are due to economies of size, differences in crop yields (experimental or farm level) and type of reclamation method used. The market values for stony lands (determined by regression technique) are higher compared with the productive values. Analysis also indicates that crop production is feasible within the parameters defined and that it is more economical to develop unutilized stony land rather than purchase prime agricultural land at current market prices. Parametric programming procedures indicate that the solutions are more sensitive to crop yields and prices than reclamation costs.

scholarly journals Development and implementation of a web-system for making management decisions on increasing soil productivity of degraded agricultural lands

2021 ◽  
Vol 937 (3) ◽  
pp. 032096
Author(s):  
A Ilinskiy ◽  
A Matveev ◽  
K Evsenkin
Keyword(s):  
Contaminated Soils ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Land Reclamation ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Soil Productivity ◽  
Agricultural Lands ◽  
Web System ◽  
European Part Of Russia

Abstract Experimental studies on the effectiveness of the use of new organo-mineral amendments obtained on the basis of biocompost to restore fertility and increase the productivity of degraded alluvial meadow medium loamy and sod-podzolic sandy loamy soils of reclaimed agricultural lands were carried out by the authors of the paper as part of the implementation of the state assignment of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation “To develop a scientific and methodological approach and new agro-meliorative methods for restoring the fertility of degraded reclaimed lands, reclaiming contaminated soils and disturbed pasture areas in the European part of Russia”. The studies included a series of long-term greenhouse and field experiments performed on the reclaimed lands of JSC “Moskovskoye” and the stationary site of the Meshchersky branch of the A.N. Kostyakov All-Russian Research Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Land Reclamation, which resulted in new ways of restoring the fertility of degraded reclaimed agricultural land and low-productivity lands involved in agricultural circulation using multifunctional amendments for the conditions of the southern part of the Non-Black Earth Zone of Russia. At the end of the experimental studies, the authors developed a database, and then an information and reference Web-system that allows entering, storing, finding and analyzing information on ways to increase the soil fertility of degraded reclaimed agricultural land and low-productivity lands involved in agricultural circulation using biocompost based on the processing of organic waste. This software allows making scientifically based and timely decisions to restore fertility and increase soil productivity.

scholarly journals Agricultural land use in the post-reform period (2000-2020) in a market economy

2021 ◽  
Vol 937 (3) ◽  
pp. 032103
Author(s):  
Yu M Rogatnev ◽  
I V Khorechko ◽  
M N Veselova
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
General Characteristic ◽  
Economic Feasibility ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Reform Period

Abstract The formation of agricultural land use adequate to the tasks of the market economy is the most important task of the post-reform period. Agrarian transformations were of a social and political nature and solved the problems of transition from a planned to a market economy. To implement them, we used not the experience of Russia in previous years, but examples from the practice of advanced economies of the European Union. Therefore, the appearance of such a phenomenon as unused land (in general, characteristic of the crisis periods of the market economy) caused a negative perception. The paper considers this problem as an important social and economic phenomenon and suggests ways to solve it. For this purpose, the technology of identifying and detailed study of the state of the land is proposed. The identification of the natural suitability for the cultivation of the main agricultural crops is confirmed by ensuring sufficient efficiency of crop production. Based on the analysis of the conditions of land use (labor, capital and energy supply) and their legal status, the economic feasibility of involving unused plots in economic turnover is established. This will make it possible to make the necessary and reasonable decisions to restore the land and resource potential of agricultural production. To ensure the controlled and systematic implementation of the program to solve the problem, a state-commercial center is being created in the subject of the Federation, which organizes, controls and finances the activities carried out.

scholarly journals Dynamics of agricultural land and the risk to food insecurity in the Niayes region of Diamniadio, West Senegal

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mateugue Diack ◽  
Macoumba Loum ◽  
Abdoulaye Guisse ◽  
Mamadou B. Sane
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Fruits And Vegetables ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Exchange Capacity ◽  
Agricultural Lands ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research

Food security is a serious challenge facing West African countries because most croplands are being degraded. Consequently, agricultural production is being exceeded by rapid population growth. This study relates the dynamics of agricultural lands to the level of capacity building for resilience in response to low productivity and hence to food insecurity in the Niayes region, Senegal, where lands are presumably suitable for crop production. Factors influencing changes in surface areas, soil quality and level of resilience were examined using quantitative and qualitative research methods. Findings showed strong relationships between a significant decrease (65.25% – 35.54%) in productive agricultural lands with a range of soil physical and chemical properties (clay to loamy soil texture; soil pH: 7.0–8.0; soil organic carbon [SOC]: 5.0 g kg−1 – 25.0 g kg−1; effective cations exchangeable capacity [ECEC]: 4.5 Cmol kg−1 – 39.0 Cmol kg−1; cation exchange capacity [CEC]: 8.0 Cmol kg−1 – 34.0 Cmol kg−1) and food insecurity levels. In the last 5 years, urbanisation and industrialisation processes have reduced the farmlands by about 26.51% through uncontrolled construction of buildings and companies, leading to a disappearance of lands. Such dynamics raises the issue of a risk to food security in a region that usually provides more than 70% of fruits and vegetables demand for consumption. These results underline a need for a greater understanding of resilience for a better management design with a risk prevention plan to ensure food security.

scholarly journals Impacts of flood on Char livelihoods and its adaptation techniques by the local people

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md Sirajul Islam ◽  
Md Solaiman ◽  
MS Islam ◽  
TR Tusher ◽  
MH Kabir
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Support ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Agricultural Lands ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Rehabilitation Programs ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
High Magnitude ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations

The study showed that most of the farmers (81.81%) in char area of flood lands were affected by flood as their crops were washed away by flood water as agricultural lands (59%) were inundated in a high magnitude flood. During flood, almost 88.89% farmers pass their days having no alternative occupation, and cannot afford to meet basic needs of their family as most of the Char lands were inundated for about two or three months, resulting in no crop production during that period. People reside in roads, schools and even on the top of the roof as there was no flood shelter in the study area. Besides these, rehabilitation programs were also not sufficient. It is also revealed that siltation over agricultural land reduces its fertility and productivity. To cope with this problem, people of Char land formulated and undertaken various adaptation techniques in their own way which varies depending on their socio-economic and environmental aspects, such as education, income, occupations and living conditions, as there was no organizational support. Finally, the study recommended that the policy makers and implementers along with non-governmental organizations should take their own responsibilities focusing the devastating situation of the previous flood in the study area. Also, the farmers should grow the flood tolerant varieties of crops in the area to mitigate loss of production and to lead a sustainable life.Bangladesh J. Sci. Res. 28(2): 123-135, Dec-2015

scholarly journals Utilization of Tephrosia vogelii in post-mining land reclamation

2021 ◽  
Vol 882 (1) ◽  
pp. 012067
Author(s):  
V A Kusumaningtyas ◽  
A Murniati ◽  
S Budiman ◽  
A Hardian ◽  
H Ruhaniyah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Product ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Land Reclamation ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Mining Area ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Available Nitrogen ◽  
Tephrosia Vogelii ◽  
Product Technology

Abstract Reclamation is an effort to repair the damaged mining sector to provide optimal benefits. This review article aims to propose a natural product technology approach to the reclamation of post-coal mining land by increasing the content of soil organic matter so that the post-mining land becomes fertile and can be used for agricultural land. The method used is an observation and literature study. Literature searches were using them ScienceDirect, Scopus, PubMed, and Google Scholar databases. Land-use change of post-mining site to agricultural land provides prospective economic value to the community. However, the land quality of the post-mining area should be improved before food crop production. Tephrosia vogelii is a member of the Papilionoideae subfamily is important for land revegetation. They can fertilize the soil because of mutualistic symbiosis with the bacteria Rhizobium sp. which is capable to fix nitrogen in the soil and hence provide available nitrogen. Thus, the use of post-mining land as agriculture can improve the economy and sustainability as well as protect life and the environment with natural product technology.

Detrimental Impact of Plastic Outcome on Agriculture

2020 ◽  
pp. 122-141
Author(s):  
Shivom Singh ◽  
Prachi Dixit ◽  
Kajal S. Rathore ◽  
Neha Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Goods ◽  
Agricultural Soil ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Water Sources ◽  
Gaseous Exchange ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Agricultural Lands ◽  
Surrounding Water ◽  
Natural Organic Material ◽  
Detrimental Impact

Generally, plastic is made up of non-biodegradable chemicals i.e. polyolefin, polyester, and polyurethanes. This is hardly surprising since the use of polythene bags has infiltrated all sectors of economy, agriculture, consumer goods, and especially in packaging, where polythene is increasingly replacing jute, paper, wood, and glass. Polythene bags can release harmful chemicals into the surrounding agricultural soil, which can then seep into ground water or other surrounding water sources. This can cause serious harm to the species that drink this water. Unlike natural organic material they do not disintegrate with time but keep accumulating in the environment. So it is very difficult to dispose of the polythene bags. If the polythene bags burned in agriculture land, they release harmful chemicals like Cd, Pb, CO, NOX and SO2, which causes many diseases in animals as well as in human beings. The accumulation of polythene bags also makes agricultural soil sterile/barren as it stops the gaseous exchange. In normal agricultural land, the concentration of oxygen is 3 ppm. Where polythene is present, the concentration of oxygen in soil decreases to 0.001 ppm. In addition, the polythene pollution can adversely affect agricultural lands, waterways, and oceans.

scholarly journals The Impacts of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy on Agriculture in Slovakia/ Dopady společné zemědělské politiky Evropské unie na zemědělství Slovenska

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 51-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Némethová ◽  
Alena Dubcová ◽  
Hilda Kramáreková
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Agricultural Areas ◽  
European Union Member States

Abstract The impacts of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union on Slovak agriculture since the accession of Slovakia to the European Union, are discussed in this paper. Structural changes that were made are reflected in the developmental trends of various agricultural areas. In this paper, the changes in agricultural land use and its categories, in particular landscape types, as well as changes in the numbers and structure of the labour force, changes in the organizational structure of agricultural holdings, the development of cropland areas of the most important crops in crop production, and changes in the number of livestock, are discussed. This analysis also focuses on Slovakia’s position in terms of overall agricultural production within the European Union member states.

scholarly journals CONCEPTUAL ASPECTS OF AGRICULTURA PROPER MANAGEMENT BY FAT AUTHORITIES

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valery Velkovski ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Land Reclamation ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Agricultural Lands ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Agriculture And Food

In the management of agricultural lands in the Republic of Bulgaria, according to the current legislation, natural persons - owners and users of agricultural lands, legal entities, state bodies and local authorities take part. The Law on the Ownership and Use of Agricultural Land, the Law on the Protection of Agricultural Land, the Regulations on their Implementation and other legal acts regulate the active role of local authorities in the management of agricultural land. This management covers a serious range of tasks and activities, such as: management of lands from the municipal land fund; - consolidation of massifs of agricultural land; reclamation of agricultural lands; exchange of agricultural land; - renting and / or leasing and similar. In addition, local authorities participate in the management of agricultural land, cooperating with the territorial structures of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food and other state bodies. The subject of consideration and analysis in the report are some conceptual aspects of the management of agricultural land by local authorities, and the subject of examination are primarily the legislation in this area and the resulting positive and negative effects of their implementation.

scholarly journals The effectiveness of the use of productive land in agriculture of the Voronezh region

2018 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 398-406
Author(s):  
P. V. Demidov ◽  
A. V. Ulezko
Keyword(s):  
Crop Production ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Seed Quality ◽  
Mineral Fertilizers ◽  
Agricultural Crops ◽  
Agricultural Lands ◽  
Forage Crops ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Voronezh Region ◽  
Productive Land

The article examines the structure of the agricultural sector of the Voronezh region and changes in the size of land use of farms of different categories based on the results of the all-Russian agricultural censuses of 2006 and 2016.the significant differences between the data of the Federal registration service and the data obtained from the all-Russian agricultural censuses, in size and structure of agricultural lands related to agricultural lands are Revealed. The problem of limited information on the distribution and use of agricultural land and its reliability is noted. The differentiation of the Voronezh region districts by the size of the acreage and their contribution to the production of certain types of crop production, the dynamics of production of the main types of crop production in the region, the change in the structure of production of certain types of products by categories of farms. It is concluded that the fundamental changes in the sectoral structure, accompanied by the removal of crop rotations of forage crops, including annual and perennial grasses, led to a violation of the science-based system of agriculture and significantly limited the possibility of its biologization. Estimated evolution of yields of basic agricultural crops in the Voronezh region, changes which were provided with a comprehensive exposure to a wide range of factors, including the growth of seed quality, increasing doses of mineral fertilizers, the use of new plant protection products, development of new technologies of cultivation of agricultural crops, optimization of the timing of major manufacturing operations. Changes in the volume of direct investment in fixed capital of agriculture are studied. The trends identified in the study of the effectiveness of the use of productive land involved in the process of agricultural production are formulated.

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