AGROECOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE REVIVAL OF AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIES IN THE TERRITORY CONTAMINATED WITH RADIONUCLIDES (A CASE OF THE CHERNOBYL DISASTER)

Abstract

The experimental results of many years of research on the agroecological aspects of the revival of agricultural industries in the territory contaminated with radionuclides as a result of the Chernobyl disaster are presented, analyzed and summarized. It is shown that in the remote period of development of the radiation situation, the most critical branch of agricultural production is dairy farming, and the product is milk produced in personal subsidiary plots of the population. Therefore, along with the economic feasibility and expediency of the formation of a highly productive branch of agricultural production, it is necessary to provide the measures for minimization the individual effective equivalent dose of exposure to the population by ensuring the production of products that are guaranteed to be safe in terms of radiation. The main ways to achieve this are the preparation and using of animal rations, the content of radionuclides in which, according to predictive calculations, cannot lead to exceeding the permissible levels of Cs in milk, as well as the saturation of fodder crop rotations with plants that have a potentially low ability to accumulate radionuclides.