Agricultural Production Characteristics of Soils In The South Slope of The Great Caucasus On The Example of The Sheki District of Azerbaijan

Abstract

The article presents the results of soil-ecological and geobotanical studies of the main types of soils in the Sheki region, describes the natural conditions and diagnostic indicators of soils in vertical zoning from intrazonal landscapes to subalpine meadows. “We need to clearly realize that the anthropogenic transformation of the biosphere in a certain sense has the character of a global catastrophe and the anthropogenic landscape is the landscape of the future. In all likelihood, within 100 - 200 years it will occupy the entire territory of the earth's surface, with the exception, perhaps, of eternal ice and mountain peaks. The reasons for this lie in the uncontrolled and progressive growth of the population of the Earth, in the non-stop growth of industry and agriculture, in the constant human need for energy sources, and other processes accompanying the “triumph of civilization” [7].