Journal of Horticulture
Open Access
ISSN: 2376-0354
ISSN: 2376-0354
Department of Agricultural Science, Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Beijing, China
Research Article
Fast-Growing Desert Protected Horticulture around Taklimakan Desert: Current Status and Technological Challenges for Sustainable Development
Author(s): Wenke Liu*
With the rapid development of continuous population growth, urbanization and industrialization, increasing pressure for oasis agriculture aggravated around some deserts (e.g. Taklimakan desert etc.) in Xinjiang province and inner Mongolia provinces of China. Nowadays, agricultural land resource has become limited seriously and agroenvironment tends to be fragile and adverse for oasis agriculture. In recent years, scaled Desert Protected Horticulture (DPH) in some cities located in Xinjiang has fast developed successfully in the suburbs of five prefecture-level cities and more than thirty county-level cities around Taklimakan desert on land obtained through desert reclamation, which provided substantial economic output and labor employment for local residents. Nowadays, many ecoenvironmental problems, such as nutrient leaching (e.g. nitrate and phosphate etc.) and water loss in desert .. View More»