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AMUR-HEILONG RIVER BASIN

All chapters:

Waters and water management

Ecosystems and ecoregions

Species diversity and use of biological resources

Nature conservation: econet and protected areas

Countries & cultures

International policy

Land use

Russian Agricultural Lands

Related maps, pictures, links

Table. Agriculture land structure in Russia in 2002 (‘000 hectares)

Province	Agriculture lands		Drained/ irrigated	Planted Cropland	Nomadic pastures
Province	total	arable	Drained/ irrigated	Planted Cropland	Nomadic pastures
Primorsky	997	607	286	406	–
Khabarovsky	274	100	83	102	10,422
Amurskaya	1,788	1,187	246	647	554
Evreiskaya Autonomy	168	86	88	85	–
Chitinskaya	1,443	583	36	320	3,142
ABAR	173	97	7	31	699
Russia basin provinces total	4,844	2,660	746	1,591	14,817

Source: Karakin & Sheingauz 2004

Table. Southern RFE agriculture production in 2001 (Ganzei 2004)

Region	Grain	Sunflower seed	Potato	Vege-table	Meat	Milk	Eggs	Non-swine live- stock	Swine	Honey	Total cropland
Region	‘000 tons	‘000 tons	‘000 tons	‘000 tons	‘000 tons	‘000 tons	million	‘000 head	‘000 head	‘000 tons	‘000 ha
Primorsky	134.9	0.8	433.7	114.6	16.6	136.1	177.1	97.1	42.2	1.756	448.1
Khabarovsky	27	0.1	326	140.4	15.4	80.8	232.9	52.3	70.5	0.467	102.6
Amurskaya	190.3	0.3	491.2	112.1	22.5	174.4	165.3	129.7	71.4	1.744	695.5
Evreiskaya Autonomy	29	0	103.9	29.7	2.9	30.1	13.6	20.4	13.1	0.024	79.7
South RFE total	381.2	1.2	1354.8	396.8	57.4	421.4	588.9	299.5	197.2	3.991	1322.9

Map collection: Land use and agriculture

Maps:

Soil Degradation Severity

Abandoned cropland in Zeya Bureya Plains

Frequency of fires in tiger/leopard habitat in Southern Primorsky Province by WCS

Density of cropland in China in 2000 (by Liu 2005)

Cropland change in China in 1990-2000 (by Liu 2005)

Notheast China irrigation (by F.Lasserre)

Map collection: Forestry

Maps:

Change in Forest Cover in Amur Heilong River Basin

Change in Korean Pine Forest Cover and Composition

Map collection: Oil & gas

Maps:

Russian oil & gas exports

Pipelines in Amur River basin

Map collection: Transportation

Maps:

Northeast Asia Transportation ( TumenNET GEF project map)

Major Trans-Asian Railroads.

Asian major highway route map.

Proposed Millenium Road in Mongolia

Photo:

Agriculture in China

Agriculture in Russia

Agriculture in Mongolia

Land degradation

Oil & gas and mining

Transportation infrastructure

Logging and timber trade

Non-timber forest products

GIS: Political geography, railroads and pipelines.

GIS:Forestry impacts on Korean Pine forests

Also look:

Land-use trends:

General trends in land-use

Recent changes in land-use in three countries

Agriculture:

Amur Agriculture

Agricultural development in Northeast China

Agricultural development in Eastern Mongolia

Russian agriculture

Northeast Asia cooperation in agriculture

Environmental impacts of argiculture

Land degradation and desertification

Conversion of wildlands to farmland

Forestry:

Timber harvest in the Russian Far East

Salmon vs forestry

Major human-induced impacts on forest ecosystems of RFE (table)

Other land-use issues:

Nature tourism in the Amur/Heilong River Basin

Transport infrastructure impacts

Oil & gas Basin

Oil & gas impacts

Mongolian mining