{"id":185,"date":"2015-10-09T19:41:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T18:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garneaa1.miniserver.com\/~ithacapres\/?p=185"},"modified":"2016-01-22T14:56:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T14:56:01","slug":"accelerated-reclamation-of-alkaline-argillaceous-soils-of-azerbaijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/10\/09\/accelerated-reclamation-of-alkaline-argillaceous-soils-of-azerbaijan\/","title":{"rendered":"Accelerated Reclamation of Alkaline Argillaceous Soils of Azerbaijan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his <em>Accelerated Reclamation of Alkaline Argillaceous Soils of Azerbaijan<\/em>, Professor Mukhtar Abduyev describes the tackling of a long-established problem which had enormous implications for Azerbaijan&#8217;s security of food supply. The task was to find more efficient methods of reclaiming the saline soils that covered more than 60% of the republic&#8217;s lowlands some 2.5 million hectares were resistant to improvement. Existing methods of reclamation involved vast amounts of water for leaching and the construction of extensive drainage systems; these methods could take up to 10 years to become effective. Prof. Abduyev typically adopted a practical scientific approach, researching various methods of salt removal and their effect on soils and the crops to be grown in them. He was also a highly respected teacher and was directly involved in field investigations, at the same time providing leadership and valuable hands-on experience for graduate students and research workers. Prof. Abduyev s work was a major contribution to streamlining the vital work to bring more Azerbaijani land into effective crop and food production.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mukhtar Abduyev<\/strong> (1926 &#8211; 79), Doctor of Agricultural Science, was respected across the USSR for his work on the amelioration of saline and polluted land. He had a lifelong connection with the Azerbaijan SSR s Institute of Soil Sciences and Agricultural Chemistry, founding and leading the country s first Soil Reclamation Laboratory there. He also inspired many talented students at the Azerbaijan State University and other institutions. In 1970 he was awarded the USSR s medal for Valorous Labour.<\/p>\n<p>Hardback \u2022 229 mm x 152 mm \u2022 ISBN 9780863724817 \u2022 240 pages \u2022 \u00a365.00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his Accelerated Reclamation of Alkaline Argillaceous Soils of Azerbaijan, Professor Mukhtar Abduyev describes the tackling of a long-established problem which had enormous implications for Azerbaijan&#8217;s security of food supply. The task was to find more efficient methods of reclaiming the saline soils that covered more than 60% of the republic&#8217;s lowlands some 2.5 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}