Classification of reclaimed soils in post industrial areas

The Influence of Opencast Lignite Mining Dehydration on Plant Production—A Methodological Study

“…Moreover, the restoration of fully balanced and productive soils is a rather difficult task that lasts several decades [80]. The reclaimed areas, that represent a group of urban soils, often differ significantly from naturally formed soils in terms of many properties: lack of accumulation potential, low content of nutrients, yield instability, which makes them economically unattractive for farmers for many years [33,81,82]. In Poland, out of the three lignite basins, land reclamation is performed only in the Konin-Turek one, what is more, the share of land reclamation towards agriculture is decreasing over the subsequent years [83,84].…”