Journal Article

Study Concerning the Soil Resources Used in Agriculture and Forestry Worldwide

țiu, Marcel, Matei, Ioan, Dulf, Vasile, Horia Mihai Păcurar, Păcurar, Ioan, Bunea, Anca

2020

Overview

One may notice that functions performed by the soil at the level of natural systems, but also of agroecosystems are those that constitute the foundation of the concept of soil quality. The purpose of this study is to summarize the developments in the world and on the continents, throughout the entire period for which there are official data, in terms of soil resources used in agriculture and forestry. In order to study the way in which the degrees of use of soil resources in agriculture and forestry have evolved over the whole period for which official data are available, respectively 1961 - 2018, the FAO database was consulted. Worldwide, for the entire analyzed period (1961 - 2018), the proportion of arable land used in total agricultural land is equal on average to 28.28%, the cultivated land from the total agricultural land shows an average equal to 30.63%, the proportion of land on which organic agriculture is practiced. The proportion of soil resources occupied by primary forest presents an average equal to 31.97%, the proportion of planted forest from the total forested land is equal to 6%, and the average proportion is equal to 94.19%.

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