Perspective
Azerbaijan's water and land resources.
Author(s): Chemelia Reed*
The republic's total land area is 8641500 hectares, of which 55 percent, or 4756500 hectares, is suitable for agriculture. Irrigated land accounts for 16.6% of the total area, or 1,432,600 hectares. Arable land suitable for agriculture accounts for 1,804,800 hectares of the total land balance. It should be mentioned that second-hand Armenian aggressors have taken over 181600 acres of the possible total area of arable land. There are 224,700 hectares of arable land, permanent crops, 11,700 hectares of hayfields, pastures, 2,560.0 thousand hectares, and 45.7 hectares of fallow land. The nation of the yards has a total area of 258,100 hectares (227,600 hectares of arable land), with 1,038,800 hectares of forest plantations. As the population has grown to around 10 million people, land has been used outside of agricultural projects and allocated for the construction of individual buil.. Read More»
DOI:
10.37532/2591-7641.6(2).16-18
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