Recreational and agro-climatic resources are ... Problems of agroclimatic resources

The scientific and technological revolution allowed humanity to unload the muscles, but it stretched nerves and increased the gap with nature. The increasing number of people on the planet and growing consumption are increasingly using natural opportunities and loading the planet's resource base. And in the vanguard of priorities there are recreational and agro-climatic resources. These are the basic components that will meet the needs of people and not tear them away from nature. The preservation of nature and the care of it in this vein are becoming more urgent.

Agroclimatic and recreational resources

Since the birth of human civilization, we have been using in our activities all the opportunities that for billions of years have been formed on our planet. The development of science and technology has led to a global depletion of stocks of exhaustible natural resources, and agroclimatic resources are no exception. This is the ecocide of nature by man, which led to the emergence of man-made earthquakes and huge tsunamis, the loss of millions of square kilometers of fertile soils and unique biogeocenoses. Mankind has turned out to be not a child, caring for its parent, but a destroyer and even a pest. All the variety of recreational resources of the planet is under threat, and the need to ensure food needs makes us take more and more careful attitude to the available agro-climatic resources.

Nature for us

Speaking about recreational resources, we mean everything that can be used to meet a person's need for recreation, both active and passive. This group includes natural components (landscape, water, flora and fauna), sights of a cultural and historical nature and the corresponding accompanying infrastructure. Man is a child of nature, and in the conditions of increasing emotional and social pressure on citizens, we are increasingly drawn to touch the sources - to the pristine islets of nature. The theme of the development of the tourism industry and its environmental friendliness is extensive and multifaceted. But its problems are inseparable from the general problems of the ecological state of the planet.

World Agroclimatic Resources

Today, the problem of providing food to the world's population is no less acute than a century ago. The provision of needs in this case is entrusted to the structure of the agro-industrial complex, which has long become the basis of the world economy. Agroindustrial resources are the whole complex of indicators that affect the productivity of agricultural agriculture and provide the capacity and potential of rural production. The duration of the light period, the average daily temperature regime and humidity are the main components of the agroclimatic resource of the planet.

A separate environmental science - agroclimatology - is engaged in the assessment of climatic features and the potential for their use, the study of agricultural lands as a single biogeocenosis, monitoring and developing ways to reduce adverse factors, agroclimatic zoning and developing solutions to the problem of agroclimatic resources.

The main wealth of the farmer

The optimal amount of sunlight, a warm climatic regime and an acceptable level of humidity are the most important indicators of successful agricultural management. Let's try to concretize the concept of "agro-climatic resources". The definition of components can be as follows:

• The average daily value of the vegetative period. For all crops, there is a biological zero (minimum and maximum temperatures). For each zone of ecological zoning, methods have been developed that assess the potential efficiency of growing a particular crop.
• The vegetative period and the accumulation of biomass provide the processes of photosynthesis. Its light and dark periods play a vital function for plants. Photoperiodism is the duration of a light day for a given zone of ecological zoning.
• The formation of 1 gram of dry matter by plants is ensured by the expenditure of up to 1,000 grams of water. Humidity indicators are an important component of the agroclimatic resource of the locality.
• The snow cover, its quantity and quality, is important as a factor of the reserve of moisture and ensuring the experience of the non-vegetative period with perennial crops.

These are the main, though not the only, indicators that characterize agroclimatic resources.

It is important

All resources on the planet are distributed unevenly. And agroclimatic here is no exception. The assessment of the zones includes about 70 indicators unique to the area. Although this resource complex is considered to be renewable natural resources, both natural factors (general warming on the planet) and anthropogenic (pollution, merciless use) affect their quality and quantity. Technogenic catastrophes in general derive from the turnover of entire areas together with their agricultural resource.

The Tasks of Humanity

Since the 1990s, the world community has adopted the concept of sustainable development, which implies the integration of economic and environmental approaches to the use of the planet's resource base and its component, such as agro-climatic resources. This is the only sure way that will ensure the safety of the planet for future generations. The concept of sustainable development includes many items, in the context of our theme, we will outline the following priority tasks:

• Ensuring through the rational use of the stability of natural resources;
• The development of green agriculture and the increase of its productivity;
• The development of technologies that reduce the load on the climate of the planet;
• Optimization of energy saving technologies and alternative energy sources.