Soil loss and associated water pollution (1)
•annual humus loss
amounts from 0.6 to 1 t/ha*
•80 ml. tones of soil
with the content of 120 th. tons of nitrogen
and 80 th. tons of phosphorous is being
washed out annually. On the slopes 20 % of nitrogen, 2-5 %
of phosphorous and 10-70 % potassium are dashed out
of fertilizers.
•Data of Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences