complexes increased by 45.3 thousand hectares, stony – by 108.3 thousand hectares
and washed up - by 454.8 thousand hectares.
At the same time, volumes of work on conducting liming and gypsum of soils
decreased significantly. If in 1990 liming and gypsum of soils were carried out on
1407.9 and 285.4 thousand hectares, then in 2015 the size of the area decreased by 93.7
and 97.5% (Fig. 5).
Figure 5 – Dynamics of conducting liming and gypsum of soils in Ukraine,
1990 = 100%
Source: Made by the author according to data [14]
The defining indicators, which characterize the impact of agriculture on the
natural environment, are the degree of land cultivation and the degree of development
of agricultural land. The vast majority of land resources is in intensive agricultural
circulation. This area of land determines their quality and social importance.
It should be noted that the economic and efficient use of agricultural land
includes plans for economic and social regeneration of the village, the possibility of
rapid stabilization of the economy, improvement of the environment, etc.
The negative consequence of the intensive use of land, especially agricultural
development, is the vulnerability of large land areas to the impact of water and wind
erosion (deflation and hazardous areas).
Over the past twenty-six years in Ukraine, the level of development of land
resources (tillage of the territory) and the level of cultivation of agricultural land did
not change much. Compared to 1990, in 2015, the area's cultivation increased from
20,4
1,7
3
5,2
5,6
7,5
6,9
6,9
6,3
6,3
1,8
0,9
1,5
2,5
2,2
2,1
2,3
2,5
0
5
10
15
20
25
1995
2000
2005
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Conducted liming of soils
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