Year of publication 2004

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Pages 4

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Author L.Penkina (Ë.Ì.Ïåíêèíà);Animal Production and Health Division

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Product type Book (stand-alone)

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Edition 1

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Synopsis (short abstract) Given the vital cultural and economic role of grasslands in the Kyrgyz Republic, finding the right balance between natural resources and livestock development is a crucial task. How to define the correct policy in respect to pasture in order to improve farmer's financial return without breaching the ecological balance? The customer attitude o the humankind to mountains as to a source of natural resources has resulted in the fact that social-economic situation of mountain territories on all con tinents of the planet has become negative: poverty of the population, depopulation, degradation of the ecosystems and eco-resources, the loss of ethnic-cultural traditions, interethnic tension, conflicts, migration and informational problems. The cultural and economic role of the pasture area of the Kyrgyz Republic is difficult to overestimate for the balance of nature resources and the livestock development since pastures are a traditional practice of land use. Thus, preservation agains t the land degradation and sustainable use of mountain ecosystems is a vitally important task. Despite the reduction of the livestock the problem of an excessive use is preserved. The most easily accessible pastures suffer of the excessive use, while remote pastures remain to be unused. The major part of pastures suffers of a bad condition and is characterized by a low efficiency, erosion of the upper layer of soil and also by periodical mudflows on extremely degraded territories. How to define the correct policy in respect of pasture - enlarge livestock production or save the pasture in the primordial type? How does a farmer become a rich man without breaking ecological balance and not allowing overgrazing: through improvement of the access to remote pasture, improvement of the legislative base in the field of pasture use, reinforcement

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Language Russian

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