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Table 3.24. Types and extent of major anti-erosion measures implemented in 1998

Types of major anti-erosion measures

Units of measurement

Years

   

1997

1998

1. Development of projects of land management with land improvement and delineation.

Number of ag enterprises,

2445 2471

thousand hectares

9336 9357
2. Complete outlining on the ground of field and working plot boundaries.

Number of ag enterprises,

946  

thousand hectares

3777   -

3. Creation of protective forest plantations.

Thousand hectares

6.7 3.9

4. Establishment of field-protection forest strips.

Thousand hectares

0.8 0.34

5. Construction of anti-erosion hydrotechnical structures, namely:

     

- earth banks of different design (bank-ditch, terraced embankment, embankment roads)

Km

80.8 36.56

- waterway facilities (spillways, overflows, channels, drop structures, dams and other)

Pieces

2 3

- backfilling and smoothing out of ravines

Hectares

39  
- anti-erosion silt-catching basins

Pieces,

4 6

Hectares

29 18

- river-bank reinforcement for protection of agricultural lands

Km

1.3 0.38