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Steppe is the natural grassland in temperate semi-arid areas of the northern Asia, with the potential for desertification. Although the desertification of the steppe is not as strong or rapid as earthquakes and floods, it has become the most extensive and serious ecological event. The main objectives and basic measure to combat the steppe desertification is developing a high-quality and high-yielding and eco-friendly intensive modernized husbandry to gradually supersede the traditional low productivity and eco-unfriendly backward mode of husbandry production that had characterized grazing practices in natural grassland for thousands of years.
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Liu, Z., Zhang, X. (2010). Steppe Degradation and Rehabilitation in Northern China. In: Desertification and Its Control in China. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01869-5_7
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