Crops

Chilean or European potato cultivation area .

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Author:

Rukhovich D.I., Koroleva I.E., Vilchevskaya E.V.

Compilation date:

10.07.2003.

Scale:

1:20,000,000

Precision:

Maps of the Russian Federation and of the former republics of the Soviet Union have been compiled on the scale of 1:20,000,000.

Projection:

.Alber.s equal-area projection for the USSR., 9, 1001, 7, 100, 0, 44, 68, 0, 0.

Main content:

A vector map: polygons show cultivation areas.

Content's precision:

The maps contain generalized information about the cultured plant's distribution drawn from published sources, taking into consideration the map of cultivated lands of the USSR.

Map compilation procedure:

The cultivation area map was compiled by combining district maps of the Russian Federation, regional maps of the former republics of the Soviet Union, the map of natural and agricultural zoning, and the map of cultivated lands. A plant cultivation database comprised of 20 fields was been compiled using district and regional maps. A cultured plant distribution layer was determined for each field, whereupon non-arable lands were excluded from each layer. The map of the arable lands of the former USSR was obtained by reducing the 1:4,000,000 map of cultivated lands to the scale of 1:20,000,000, taking into account the areas where 10% or more of the land is tilled. Cultured plant distribution takes into account only those areas where these plants occupy 3-5% or more of tilled land.

Data sources:

Central directorate of land surveying and cartography of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. 1969. Atlas of the USSR. 2nd edition. Moscow, 26 printer's sheets.
Central directorate of land surveying and cartography of the Ministry of geology and protection of the earth's interior of the USSR Agricultural Atlas of the USSR. 1960. Moscow, 40 printer's sheets.
Gurenev M.N., ed. 1981. Fundamentals of Agriculture. Moscow: "Kolos", 495 p.
Kashtanov A.N., ed. 1983. Natural and Agricultural Zoning and Utilization of Lands Available in the USSR. Moscow: "Kolos", p. 336.
Russian state committee for standardization. 2001. Russian Yearbook of Statistics: Statistic Collection. Vol. 1. Moscow, 679 p.
Russian state committee for standardization. 2001. Russian Yearbook of Statistics: Statistic Collection. Vol. 2. Moscow, 679 p.
State Agricultural and Industrial Committee of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, All-Union V.I. Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, V.V. Dokuchayev Research Institute of Soil. 1986. Environmental and Economic Conditions of Agricultural Production in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. In 3 parts. Moscow.
State committee for standardization of the USSR. 1991. National Economy of the USSR in 1990 Statistical Yearbook. Moscow: "Finances and Statistics", 752 p.
State committee for standardization of the USSR Moscow. 1988. Agriculture of the USSR: Annual of Statistics. "Finances and Statistics", 535 p.
State Research Institute of Land Resources. 1990. Land resources of the USSR. 4.1. Natural and agricultural zoning of the regions, territories, autonomous republics and republics of the USSR. Moscow.
Utilization of the Soils in the South of the Taiga Zone: Specific Features. 1988. Recommendations for Procedures and Reference Materials of All-Union V.I. Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, V.V. Dokuchayev Research Institute of Soil. Moscow, 51 p.
Utilization of the Soils of the Steppe and Dry Steppe Zones: Specific Features. 1988-89. Recommendations for Procedures and Reference Materials of All-Union V.I. Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, V.V. Dokuchayev Research Institute of Soil. Moscow, 68 p.
Yearbook of the Greater Soviet Encyclopaedia 1989, # 33. 1989. Moscow: "Sovyetskaya Entsyklopediya", 591 p.

Rights and copyrights:

All rights to the map are reserved by Rukhovich D.I., Koroleva I.E., Vilchevskaya E.V.
Description © I.V. Gashkova.
Photographs © I.V. Gashkova.