Windbreak strips

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Windbreak strips in the USA
Increased yield through windbreak strips (1952)

A wind protection strip (also forest protection strip) is a row of trees or a forest strip up to 50 m wide that protects arable land from deflation and drying out .

Especially in the black earth areas of the Soviet Union , forest protection strips were laid out after the Russian Revolution until the end of Stalin's rule in 1953. Vasily Dokuchayev had already undertaken experiments on this before 1917 .

However, creating forest protection strips is very labor-intensive.

See also

Commons : Windbreaks  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • hedge
  • Columnar poplar , columnar growth with a conical crown with an average height of 25 to 30 meters

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the TERRA Lexicon
  2. ↑ a b red-channel.de: environmental problems
  3. ^ Georg Jahn, Freiherr von Bissing: The economic systems of the states of Eastern Europe and the People's Republic of China . Duncker & Humblot, 1962 ( Google Books ).
  4. ↑ "The steppe forest planting and the planting of the seedlings by hand is a laborious process compared to the sowing of tree and bush species and requires 12 to 16 days' work per hectare" In: W. Galjuschew, S. Jelin, G. Netschetow, S Urinowa, G. Schestow: Mechanization of sowing, planting and the care of forest belts . In: Deutsche Agrartechnik . tape 2 , no. 4 , 1952, pp. 115-120 ( PDF ).