Ecological problems arising from intensive agriculture in Western Slovakia

✍ Scribed by Vladimir Drgona

• Book ID: 104655605
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 672 KB
• Volume: 38
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0343-2521
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00186672

✦ Synopsis

In Slovakia in the second half of the twentieth century, agriculture gradually changed from a private peasant to a socialist type, with the aim of achieving a large scale of production. But the switch from ownership to user rights disturbed the peasants' sensitive attitude towards the land which had evolved through the ages. Agriculture uses 65 percent of the land in Western Slovakia which is the most important part of the country for farm production. Intensive farming involves constant anthropic pressure and in consequence there is much erosion and soil contamination. As an example, this essay investigates eleven districts which form part of the West Slovakian region. An attempt is made to evaluate new trends in the development of regional agricultural structures in agriculture from the environmental point of view.