Agricultural Census 2020: Farmland Management and Irrigation 2020 (provisional)

Roughly a million hectares of farmland were fertilised with artificial fertilisers alone. A total of 0.5 hectares were fertilised using the combination of artificial fertilisers and manure, while 0.2 million hectares were fertilised with manure only. A small number of fields is fertilised using other organic or waste-based fertilisers.
Roughly half of all manure consists of solid manure, with broadcast spreading being its only application method. Broadcast-spread liquid manure (slurry, urine and manure-containing water) accounted for nearly a quarter of all manure, and liquid manure spread using an injector or spreader made by more than a quarter. Manure is usually injected at the depth of less than 10 cm.
Some 80 per cent of all broadcast-spread manure is covered after spreading, while roughly half of slurry, urine and manure-containing water is covered. More than half of covering takes place within less than four hours after spreading.
Nearly three per cent, or 64,000 hectares, of farmland in use can be irrigated, if required.

Methods of manure spreading 2020

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