The northeastern region of India, with an area of 255 090 km2, is predominantly hilly. Major socio-economic factors affecting sediment production in the region are; shifting cultivation, land tenure system, fast growing population, small land-holdings, deforestation and free range grazing. A multi-disciplinary long- -term study showed that 92.9 to 99.1% of rainwater can be retained in-situ, compared to 66.3% in shifting cultivation. Mean annual soil loss varied from 11.2 to 97.2 t km–2 in new land use systems as against 3621.3 t km–2 in shifting cultivation. The sediment load per litre of runoff from watersheds varied from 1250–20,300 mg suspended sediment, 5.4 to 23.6 mg NO3 – N, 2.3 to 6.5 mg P–PO4, 17.2 to 35.8 mg K2O, 0.4 to 1.8 mg Zn, 0.9 to 2.7 mg Mn, 6.5 to 12.0 mg Mg, 7.1 to 18.4 mg Fe and 4.0 to 7.2 mg SO4. The sediment transport from the catchments showed spatial and temporal variations.
The article presents processes of development in the Polish food industry which took place in the years 1998-2007. The aim of the paper is to investigate the impact of investments in food industry on structural transformations in two periods: that of pre-accession and the other of integration with the European Union.
The aim of this study is qualification of poultry products meat in feeding of man and also change of production and consumption dynamics. On the period of years 1995-2004 domestic production of poultry livestock showed increased tendency.