Publication Date
1985
Location
Kyoto Japan
Description
In Nei Monggol Autonomous Region, there are lots of sandy lands where the population rate is rather low. The renovation of these sandy lands through aerial seeding into better pastures is an important task of the local economical construction and state land repairing. In recent years, we carried out the aerial seeding in the different types of sandy lands in Nei Monggol Autonomous Region. The total acreage seeded accounts to 0.2 million ha. Generally, three years after an aerial seeding, almost 30-50% of mobile sand dunes and semi-fixed dunes in all seeded districts have been fixed. The coverage of the vegetation increased 30-60% and the grass yield raised to about 3-5 times, while the maximum 16 times. Therefore, the original sandy lands have been renovated into good pastures and the economical effects as well as the ecological effects were significant. The obvious trends are that the aerial seeding area has been stretched from the steppe zone into the desert zone which had formerly been known as a forbidden zone to aerial seeding. The aerial seeding was also very successful on the eastern skirts of the Tengle Desert where the annual rainfall is only 80-120 mm it is scarcely seen in the world.
Citation
Ke-Ming, You and Yong-Zhang, Hou, "An Information of the Improvement of the Sandy Pastures in NEI Monggol (Inner Mongolia) autonomous Region Through Aerial Seeding" (1985). IGC Proceedings (1985-2023). 66.
(URL: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/igc/1985/ses6/66)
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An Information of the Improvement of the Sandy Pastures in NEI Monggol (Inner Mongolia) autonomous Region Through Aerial Seeding
Kyoto Japan
In Nei Monggol Autonomous Region, there are lots of sandy lands where the population rate is rather low. The renovation of these sandy lands through aerial seeding into better pastures is an important task of the local economical construction and state land repairing. In recent years, we carried out the aerial seeding in the different types of sandy lands in Nei Monggol Autonomous Region. The total acreage seeded accounts to 0.2 million ha. Generally, three years after an aerial seeding, almost 30-50% of mobile sand dunes and semi-fixed dunes in all seeded districts have been fixed. The coverage of the vegetation increased 30-60% and the grass yield raised to about 3-5 times, while the maximum 16 times. Therefore, the original sandy lands have been renovated into good pastures and the economical effects as well as the ecological effects were significant. The obvious trends are that the aerial seeding area has been stretched from the steppe zone into the desert zone which had formerly been known as a forbidden zone to aerial seeding. The aerial seeding was also very successful on the eastern skirts of the Tengle Desert where the annual rainfall is only 80-120 mm it is scarcely seen in the world.
