Digital map of soils from Gagauz autonomy worked out in Comrat

Chisinau, 7 February /MOLDPRES/ - Specialists from the Comrat State University (USC) elaborated and presented an electronic map of soils from the Gagauz-Yeri Autonomous Territorial Unit at a scientific and practical seminar this week. Specialists have worked during one year on this map, within a project on the use of geospatial technologies in agriculture.  

The fields were investigated with the help of drones and grounds with an area of about 100 hectares studied. “The project’s goal is to develop innovating ways in the agricultural sector, which will considerably increase the productivity in the field,” the head of the economics department at USC, Svetlana Curacsina, has said, cited by www.gagauzinfo.md.   

USC employees gave a special training course, collecting more samples from the autonomy’s spoils. Data included in the electronic map will show the content of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. A kind of detailed history, in electronic format, will be created for each ground.   

Specialists from Comrat said that this was a unique project, really useful for agro-industrial entrepreneurs and producers. “This is a prospect for development, which would help farmers use fertilizers rationally and in scientifically calculated way,” sources from the Comrat University said.