The article explores the Kyzyl-Kum Desert and the Aral Sea plant and soil cover, the plant characteristics and regionalized cultural crops thriving in these regions, and the extraction of high-quality and environment-friendly products from that flora. This initiative aims to prevent the dispersal of 100 million tons of dust-salt mixture from the dried bed of the Aral Sea, carried by wind and storms and deposited onto agricultural fields. Therefore, in this area, the phytoremediation process through establishing saxaul plantations is crucial. Each saxaul tree bush can preserve more tons of sand with its roots, demonstrating robust growth in saline lands while utilizing mineralized groundwater. Additionally, saxaul trees contribute to maintaining the critical depth of groundwater within the normal range.
Consequently, this approach is the area’s natural barrier against secondary soil salinization and erosion processes. Similarly, it is noteworthy that today, the country’s population is growing fast, increasing its demand for food products. Based on this, obtaining high-quality and ecologically clean products from each cultivated agricultural crop is one of the most urgent issues today and the prime purpose of conducting research in these areas.
Kyzyl-Kum Desert, arid bed of Aral Sea, phytoremediation, agricultural fields, saxaul plantations, groundwater, Amu Darya, soil cover, soil salinization, soil erosion
Growing salt-resistant flora is viable under the natural conditions of the Kyzyl-Kum Desert and the arid bed of the Aral Sea, Uzbekistan, Karakalpakstan, Caspian Sea.