Agronomy (Nov 2022)

Biogeosystem Technique (BGT*) Methodology Will Provide Semiarid Landscape Sustainability (A Case of the South Russia Volgograd Region Soil Resources)

  • Alla A. Okolelova,
  • Alexey P. Glinushkin,
  • Larisa L. Sviridova,
  • Igor Y. Podkovyrov,
  • Elena E. Nefedieva,
  • Galina S. Egorova,
  • Valery P. Kalinitchenko,
  • Tatiana M. Minkina,
  • Svetlana N. Sushkova,
  • Saglara S. Mandzhieva,
  • Vishnu D. Rajput

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12112765
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 11
p. 2765

Abstract

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The science and political initiatives focus is not only concerning agricultural intensification for food security and human development. The prevention of land degradation and loss is important, and a new land-use technological platform is needed for human well-being and the ecosystem service coupling. An adverse change in the soil quality of the steppe terrain under the standard agriculture is revealed, and the dynamics of the ecosystem service is assessed. The results indicated that the standard land-use practice deteriorates stability of the soil cover, failing to ensure the soil productivity and the ecosystem services in a dry terrain. For land degradation prevention and soil-environmental services refinement, a new transcendental Biogeosystem Technique (BGT*) technological platform was developed. The BGT* is capable of providing long-term, sustainable land-use management. The BGT* methodology includes intra-soil milling, intra-soil pulse continually discrete watering, and intra-soil waste recycling. The BGT* is a basis for future political initiatives in land-use management to prevent land degradation and loss, to increase soil productivity, and to provide soil-environmental services.

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