CURRENT PROBLEMS OF SOIL RECLAMATION AND SOME WAYS OF SOLVING THEM

摘要

Soil reclamation is a necessary element of farming and land use almost everywhere in the Russian Federation. Since soils are the direct objects of reclamation, soil science provides the fundamental theoretical conceptual basis for devising meliorative measures. Their ecological suitability and cost effectiveness are now closely related to the adaptation of the reclamation measures to the soil cover within each concrete landscape in all natural zones and to the protection of all its elements from degradation. The solution of these problems presupposes a harmonious combination of crops and land use, interaction between the government and the users of the land, and intensive development of general and regional meliorative soil science and the fundamental basis for soil reclamation in Russia.