Environmental policy and administrative management

Use of fallow land practice (when the ground cultivates 3-5 times during a season for weeds destruction and moisture accumulation) leads to excessive land loosening, full absence of plants rests on a surface and, as result, to high water and wind erosion. This problem is especially character for slope lands. Land degradation leads to harvest decrease and as a result decline in living standards of villages, particular in Northern Kazakhstan. Selection of the technology which will allow to stop land degradation and stabilize crop, keeping economic efficiency, is necessary. Application of such technologies should reduce field operations quantity to a minimum and appreciably reduce agricultural works expenditures. Project goal: Land degradation decrease around Vjacheslavka settlement due to alternative variants of fallow land use and refuse of mechanical land tillage. Project tasks: 1. To show advantages of soil-saving agriculture system 2. To train farmers of Vjacheslavka village in alternative soil -saving technologies 3. To involve school pupils in wide participation of carrying out the demonstration experiences with a view of ecological education of youth Expected results: 1. Advantages of soil-saving agriculture system are demonstrated on a site of 140 ha (50 ha of which is control and cultivated by traditional technology). 2. Farmers, farms heads, representatives of local authority, regional agricultural services and school pupils are acquainted with soil-saving technology 3. Production team members are trained in technical equipment modernizations and application of soil-saving technology in agriculture. 4. Project participants, villagers of Vjacheslavka and neighbor villages, heads of local authority are supplied with the necessary information on project realization progress, demonstration fields structure, spent experiments. Information boards are established. 5. A number of information materials (methodical manuals - handbook for farmers, brochures, booklets and methodical manuals on project results) are published. 6. The preparatory video data for carrying out of training seminars and final methodical film is created.

Kazakhstan