North Caucasus Number 22

The special issue of the newsreel is dedicated to the problem of the Black Lands and the Kizlyar steppes, which are threatened with complete desertification. For many centuries, the steppes were a winter pasture for livestock. Dagestan, Makhachkala. Meeting in the Council of Ministers of the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, dedicated to the desertification of the Black Lands and Kizlyarovsky steppes; the participants of the meeting are speaking (synchronously, behind the scenes). Dagestan. Visiting meeting of the All-Russian branch of the All-Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences. A group of scientists is walking across the field. Interview with the meeting participants (synchronously). Tractors Charodinskaya machine-tractor station No. 13 work in the field during the sowing of forage crops. A flock of sheep in the pasture. Shepherds are driving a flock of sheep. An interview with Ivan Stepanovich Shatilov, academician of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, chairman of the All-Russian branch of VASKhNIL, in which he positively assesses the work of Dagestani scientists to improve forage lands (synchronously). Shepherds on the territory of the sheepfold milk the sheep. Milk is poured into the bucket. A flock of sheep in a corral on the territory of the sheepfold. Bathing sheep in an artificial reservoir. Sheep near the feeders. Agronomists talk about the importance of irrigation in drylands (synchronously). Irrigation installations work in the field. A flock of sheep on the way. Sheep, rams, lambs on the territory of the sheepfold. Otara of sheep in the desert.

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1988