Šockij, Vladimir Porfir'evič: Agro-industrial complexes and types of agriculture in Eastern Siberia - Geography of world agriculture 8. (Budapest, 1979)

V. P. SHOTSKI AGRO-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXES AND TYPES OF AGRICULTURE IN EASTERN SIBERIA (Geography of World Agriculture, 8) V. P. Shotski has been investigating the possi­bilities of land utilization in Eastern Siberia for several decades now. Researches done under his direction at the Siberian Geographical Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (Irkutsk) have led to the conclusion that in spite of the severe climatic conditions, the arable area can be expanded to 20 million hectares, and local food production can be doubled by the year 2000. Shotski’s book — the 8th volume of the ’’Geo­graphy of World Agriculture” series — outlines the possibilities of agricultural development in this vast, largely unknown area opened up, in part, in the course of the ongoing construction of the Baikal-Amur railway line. It is a book that deserves the attention of all interested in the problems of international agriculture, as well as of specialists dealing with the Soviet Union. AKADÉMIAI KIADÓ BUDAPEST

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