Kazakhstan's climate warming rate is twice as fast as the world
Chinanews.com, Nur-Sultan, October 29 (Reporter Wen Longjie) Statistics released on October 28 by the Kazakhstan Energy Industry website show that between 1976 and 2017, the temperature rise in Kazakhstan was approximately twice as high as that of the world. 0.34 degrees Celsius.
The data also shows that if the trend of climate warming cannot be contained, the area of plain pastures in Kazakhstan will be reduced by 25% and the area of mountain pastures will be reduced by 40% before 2050; the livestock inventory of plain pastures and mountain pastures will be reduced by 30% respectively. And 40%.
According to reports from Kazakh media, Kazakh meteorologists believe that climate warming will have a negative impact on Kazakh agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry.
In the future, as the temperature rises, Kazakhstan's food production will decrease, the area of forests and pastures will shrink, and biodiversity will be seriously threatened.
The Kazakhstan Food Network recently quoted statistics from the United Nations Development Program as saying that in the past 50 years, the rise in temperature in Kazakhstan has caused 66% of its land to enter the process of desertification.
Affected by this, the damage caused by the destruction of pasture vegetation was US$960 million, and the loss caused by soil erosion of the cultivated land was US$779 million.
In response to agricultural development in the context of climate warming, the former Minister of Agriculture Kurishbayev believes that Kazakhstan should vigorously develop modern agriculture, adopt and promote advanced agricultural farming and management concepts and technologies to adapt to climate and soil changes.
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