Agro-Ecological Conditions and Regional Features in the Production of Wheat and Sunflower
Keywords:
wheat, sunflower, agro-ecological regions, bonitet assessment, final production, average yield, areaAbstract
A description of the soil and climatic conditions in Bulgaria and the suitability of agricultural lands for growing wheat and sunflower is made. The territorial distribution of the agro-ecological potential of the agricultural lands in 50 agro-ecological regions is used, grouped in seven by characteristic groups, which bear the names of the main soil types: chernozems; gray-brown forest soils; gray-brown pseudo-podzolic forest soils; resins and cinnamon forest soils; brown forest soils and mountain-meadow soils. Based on the assessments of the quality from the agro-ecological regions, quality cards have been created for the suitability of the agricultural lands in Bulgaria for growing wheat and sunflower. An analysis of the state and trends in the change in the final production, area, average yield, production of the studied agricultural culture in Bulgaria for the period 2007-2017 is made.
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