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Soil salinization has accelerated in Azerbaijan considerably over the past few years.

The salinization process creates major difficulties for Azerbaijan and hinders the development of agriculture, like in many other countries which faced the same problem.

Chairman of the State Committee for Land and Cartography Garib Mammadov recently said that 40 percent of the lands in Azerbaijan are subject to salinization.

The salinization of lands is mostly observed in the Kur-Araz lowland, with about 30 percent of the 2.3 million hectares of soil in this area affected by salinity, Mammadov said.

Read more about it in AZERNEWS online newspaper's print edition published on May 1.

Also, in the new edition you can read articles about the attendance of Azerbaijani First Lady at the first meeting of European Games Coordinating Committee, the ceremony devoted to the 90th anniversary of prominent ophthalmologist Zarifa Aliyeva, possible inclusion of the Molla Nasreddin jokes to the UNESCO List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity and a famous British parkour athlete's visit to Baku, etc.

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