shelterbelts in English

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1
a line of trees or shrubs planted to protect an area, especially a farm field, from strong winds and the erosion they cause.
While few urban gardens suffer from the effects of exposure, in the suburbs, country, and coastal areas it pays to plant a shelter belt .
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1. An Afforested plantation composed of trees planted to shelter farmland and agricultural crops from the effects of wind, potentially reduce soil erosion, or serve as a source of fuelwood or income in an arid or semiarid agricultural environment is commonly called a shelterbelt.In this context, shelterbelts are commonly established as an element of an agroforestry system.

2. The plan was outlined in the Decree of the USSR Council of Ministers and All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Central Committee of October 20, 1948: "On the plan for planting of shelterbelts, introduction of grassland crop rotation and construction of ponds and reservoirs to ensure high crop yields in steppe and forest-steppe areas of the European USSR."