TY  - Data
T1  - The Soil of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic (Volume 1)
A1  - Documentation Information Center
DO  - 10.12389/ariddc.01612
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026-09-18
PB  - Arid Land Ecology and Resources Science Data Center
AB  - The need to summarize the achievements of soil research in Uzbekistan has long since become evident. This need arises from the necessity of substantiating the rational utilization of Uzbekistan’s land resources from the perspective of soil conditions and of developing practical solutions for soil improvement through the enhancement of soil fertility. The construction of irrigation and drainage systems, the expansion of sown areas for cotton, sugar beet, and other commercial crops on this basis, the increase of yields through improved agricultural techniques and the introduction of grass-field crop rotation systems, agricultural chemicalization, the consolidation and development of dryland farming, and the rationalization of pasture management, all represent only part of a much broader range of priority tasks. The successful resolution of these tasks depends to a considerable extent on the proper utilization of soil resources. Progress in this area has been hindered by the absence of a comprehensive work that systematically organizes the vast but scattered body of soil research materials. This monograph seeks to fill that gap by presenting, in concise form, our current understanding of the soil cover of the Republic.Until quite recently, soil research in Uzbekistan remained highly uneven. While most irrigated lands had already been mapped at a scale of 1:10,000, the compilation of soil maps for the dryland and pastoral regions of Uzbekistan and Central Asia depended almost entirely on individual route surveys and extrapolations by soil scientists. This prevented the preparation of a comprehensive monograph at an earlier stage and limited us to describing only those regions of the Republic that had been studied more extensively, such as Fergana and the Hungry Steppe.The compilation of a comprehensive survey of the Republic’s soils became possible only after the soil investigations carried out in recent years (1936-1941) in Uzbekistan’s dryland areas, mountain pastures
DB  - EGIDC
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