In Ukraine, there are about 800 types of soils, more than 60% of the country's land fund are unique black earth soils.
However, according to experts in land matters and scientists, the modern use of land resources of Ukraine does not meet the requirements of rational nature management. Land resources lose their fertility and degrade.
Scientists of the NAAS of Ukraine report that the plowing of land in the country is the highest in the world, reaches 57% of its territory and almost 80% of agricultural land.
Intensive agricultural land use affects the reduction of soil fertility due to soil compaction, destruction of the structure, water permeability and loss of aeration ability with all environmental consequences.
According to preliminary estimates determined by the Institute of Land Management under the NAAS, about 6.5 million hectares of land is land that is not suitable for plowing. They became such due to human intervention. In the future, they should be withdrawn from agricultural circulation, commented on the situation, Doctor of Economic Sciences, deputy chairman of the Association of the Land Union of Ukraine Andrei Martyn.
Back in the early 2000s, scientists drew attention to the violation of the environmentally acceptable ratio of arable land, natural forage land and forest plantations, which negatively affects the stability of agrolandscapes to various types of land degradation.
It can be frankly said that the structure of the land fund that Ukraine today has is marked by excessive agricultural development. This is due to the peculiarities of agriculture back in the Soviet period, when the extensive management system dominated (increase in productivity due to the expansion of sown areas).
The result was plowed land, it would be better not to touch: sand floodplains, riverbanks, in some cases - lands with steep slopes. And, of course, the use of these lands (from an environmental point of view) is impractical. Indeed, when plowing land on the slopes, erosion processes will intensify, said Andrei Martyn.
