Recommendations on the use of bottom sediments from fish farming ponds to improve the condition of agricultural lands and restore lands damaged as a result of hostilities
Authors:   National Scientific Center “Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry Research named after O.N. Sokolovsky”, Kharkiv, Ukraine, Baliuk Sviatoslav , Vorotyntseva Ludmila ,   National Scientific Center “Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry Research named after O.N. Sokolovsky”, Kharkiv, Ukraine, Skrylnyk Ievgen ,   National Scientific Center “Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry Research named after O.N. Sokolovsky”, Kharkiv, Ukraine, Kucher Anatolii ,   National Scientific Center “Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry Research named after O.N. Sokolovsky”, Kharkiv, Ukraine, Garyliuk Volodymyr ,   National Scientific Center “Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry Research named after O.N. Sokolovsky”, Kharkiv, Ukraine, Zakharova Maryna ,   National Scientific Center “Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry Research named after O.N. Sokolovsky”, Kharkiv, Ukraine, Lazebna Marina ,   National Scientific Center “Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry Research named after O.N. Sokolovsky”, Kharkiv, Ukraine, Anisimova Olga ,   National Scientific Center “Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry Research named after O.N. Sokolovsky”, Kharkiv, Ukraine, Shymel Valentina ,   National Scientific Center “Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry Research named after O.N. Sokolovsky”, Kharkiv, Ukraine, Momot Hanna ,   National Scientific Center “Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry Research named after O.N. Sokolovsky”, Kharkiv, Ukraine, Nikonenko V. М. ,   National Scientific Center “Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry Research named after O.N. Sokolovsky”, Kharkiv, Ukraine, Afanasiev Yurii ,   National Scientific Center “Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry Research named after O.N. Sokolovsky”, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Published: March 2024

Дослідження виконано за проєктом «Рекомендації для аграріїв і громад щодо добування та використання мулу та інших донних відкладень для поліпшення стану сільськогосподарських угідь та відновлення земель, пошкоджених під час воєнних дій» з компанією Кімонікс Інтернешнл Інк. у межах Програми USAID з аграрного і сільського розвитку (АГРО). Generalization of the results of complex studies on the removal and use of silt and other bottom sediments from fish ponds in agriculture to increase soil fertility, restore degraded, unproductive and reclamation of disturbed lands are provided in the recommendations. The current state of the soil cover and the priority areas of protection and restoration of soil fertility, including victims as a result of military actions are characterized. The characteristics of the water fund of Ukraine and, in particular, fishing facilities as a source of bottom sediments are given. The agronomic value of bottom sediments and the main directions of their use in agriculture are determined. An analysis of the current legislation is provided. Projects of normative legal acts on the removal, storage use of bottom sediments for land restoration have been developed. The predicted economic efficiency of removal and application of bottom sediments as fertilizers is given. It is intended for specialists of state and local self-government bodies, specialists in agronomy and aquaculture, tenants of fishing reservoirs. The study was carried out under the project «Recommendations on the extraction and use of sapropel and other bottom sediments to improve the condition of agricultural lands and restore the lands damaged as a result of hostilities» with the Chemonics International Inc. within the USAID’s Agriculture Growing Rural Opportunities Activity in Ukraine (AGRO).