THE CONTROL OF A CONDITION OF MEADOW HERBAGES

Abstract

The technique of Belarus meadow vegetation and meadows condition estimation, which includes the questions of information gathering and analysis, inspection network designing, field jobs carrying out technology, long-term grasses fields mapping, haymakings and pastures, and complex estimation of herbages. The index scale of the herbage complex estimation, having four groups of quality, allows to establish visually a degree of needs in improvement. Results of meadows condition estimation not only allow to characterize a degree of root mat broken state and a grassy cover thinned condition, but also to determine a complex of the actions promoting herbages renewing and meadow grounds efficiency increase.