ECOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC PROSPECTS FOR THE APPLICATION OF COTTON PLANT RESIDUE AS FERTILIZER

Abstract

The economic basis and prospects for the use of post-harvest plant residues of cotton as organic fertilizers to increase the fertility of irrigated arable land and the productivity of agrocenosis are considered, which represents the main element of the technology of biologization of irrigated agriculture and is a natural, environmentally friendly agricultural technology for restoring reserves of soil organic matter, which is deteriorating everywhere in the world. background of repeated sowings of cotton. And with modern cotton harvesting technology, when both marketable products and all aboveground cotton phytomass (used in tandoor heating) are removed from the fields. And a small part of the root system remains in the soil due to such a traditional cultivation system, when mineral fertilizers are mainly used to increase cotton yields (the greater the amount of mineral fertilizers, the better for increasing yields), which does not work to replenish humus - the main indicator of soil fertility.