THE REVIEW OF METHODS OF ANTI-HAIL PROTECTION IN THE CENTRAL CAUCASUS REGION

Abstract

Introduction: the article gives a brief review of methods of affecting hailing used in production processes on agricultural crops protection from hail damage. Materials and Methods: combined method, the methods of competition and acceleration of sludging in the range of hail growth area and future hail formation of hail-hazardous and hail clouds, the method of hail breaking on the approach lane of the protected area from the direction of hail clouds invasion and the method of hail breaking on the protected areas of the Central Caucasus region. They differ from each other in scientific conceptions and criteria of seeding, technical means and seeding techniques, reagent consumption, the quality of seeding conception realization and evaluation methods of the impact eficiency. Results: the analysis of long-standing observations on affecting hail processes has revealed that the protection of agricultural crops from hail damage is successful. Nevertheless, there are some cases of considerable hail damage to agricultural crops on the protected areas of the region under research. The main causes of hailing are organizing and technical, insufficient research of hail processes, low ice formation efficiency of the utilized crystal reagent particles of argentum iodide, the lack of new criteria for recognizing and schemes of hail-hazardous and hail clouds. Discussion and conclusions: many of the above problems are practically solved in the author's works, which are protected by the patent [6] and are successfully applied in the anti-hail protection of the military services of the Stavropol Territory.