Soils monitoring in Ganja-Gazakh cadastral district (Azerbaijan)

Currently, in most countries of the world, the area of agricultural land is decreasing, soil fertility is decreasing, and its condition is deteriorating. Management of processes of soil degradation and reproduction requires complex soil monitoring, an important role in its structure belongs to soil-ecological monitoring, which is a system of monitoring the ecological state of soils with the aim of rational use and protection of soil. From this point of view, ecological monitoring of the lands of the Ganja-Gazakh cadastral district, which is a zone of intensive agriculture, is of great importance. In this regard, on mountain gray-brown, ordinary mountain gray-brown (chestnut), ordinary and light gray-brown (chestnut) and alluvial-meadow soils of the Ganja-Gazakh cadastral region in 1970-1986, 1996-2000, 2017-2021 Ecological monitoring for 50 years has been carried out, and the nature and direction of changes in the soil cover have been determined for a period of 50 years.