Flora of the Yozgokkum desert and the food problem

Bukhara State University, Street Mukhammad Ikbol, 11, 200118, Bukhara, Uzbekistan

^* Corresponding author: n.n.turayeva@buxdu.uz

Abstract

the article is devoted to the importance of the desert zone of Bukhara region in food security. Because 88% of the territory consists of deserts. The flora of the Yozgoqqum desert was analyzed using the methods of inventory and landscape indication, and it was revealed that the number of plant species and bioproductivity increased by 2-7 centners. In particular, they harvested and dried plants such as yulgun, reed, mat reed, yam, shirminiya, lux, kendir, yantok growing in the 4x4 m2 area in the forests around Janam ditch and Janam lake, which are important for pasture cattle breeding, and their bioproductivity was determined. Medicinal herbs in the regions of Yozgokkum, where the Amu-Bukhara canal is crossed by the Cholkuvar network, are sedum, sweet miya, red hemp, sand tongue, white and yellow clover, nettle, goose paw, water pepper, sachartqi, peppermint, yantok, takasokol, frankincense, zupturum. it is stated that herbariums were made from sedge, sorrel, sedge, sedge, sedge, sedge, pepper, mint, ituzum, button-flower, and medicinal sytemgul.