Volga Lights No 32

View of power transmission line masts, operation of a sprinkler installation in the field. Irrigation canal view. A type of fields with saline soils, on which there are practically no crops. Employees of the Volga Research Institute of Irrigated Agriculture in Volgograd, dealing with the problems of studying solonetzic soils, during soil sampling for analysis; analysis of soil in the laboratory in order to test in practice the agrobiological method of reclamation of alkaline lands, developed at the Soil Institute named after Dokuchaeva: plowing fields in various ways that contribute to the destruction of the solonetz soil layer, fertilizing fields from an airplane, sowing host crops - usually alfalfa, the dying off of the root system of which contributes to the enrichment of the soil. View of a field planted with alfalfa. View of a wheat field, harvesting. Electric cars. View of the fields of sunflowers.

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1972