This practice describes the innovative technology that uses halophyte plants to create winter fodders reserves stocks to improve animal feed systems.

The Aral-Caspian Depression, with its sharply continental arid climate, faces a severe problem in producing enough food for a rapidly growing local population. The intensive use of water and land resources, excessive irrigation, overgrazing and felling trees and shrubs for fuel (firewood) has resulted in the degradation of fertile soils into unproductive lands unsuitable for irrigation farming, animal fodder production or cattle grazing. The situation is intensified by an increase in the degraded land area due to soil salinization and loss of fertility, combined with unsuitable land management practices.