Agrarian Economy 2020 Т. 13 № 1-2:39-44

Arable farming according to the environmental standards as a base for saving land resources in Ukraine

Bohira M., Ph.D., Associate Professor
0000-0003-0598-2851
Lviv National Agrarian University
https://doi.org/10.31734/agrarecon2020.01.039

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The article is devoted to the study of deterioration of quality indices of agricultural lands, having caused a decline of the socioeconomic indices of rural population’s life during the period of the land reform implementation in Ukraine. Those negative tendencies are also fueled by introduction of the administrative-territorial reform, which suggests agricultural land plots of state ownership are delivered to public ownership of amalgamated territorial communities. A particular attention is paid to the necessity for landowners and land-users to grasp the idea that the further intensification of arable farming by technological-chemical means is ecologically dangerous. Arable farming should be run with consideration of scientific approaches and experience of the farmers from developed European countries, as well execution of the requirements concerning rational use and protection of the owned and leased land plots from degradation, and reclamation of their fertility. It is determined that the highest degree of plowing, particular for Ukraine, as well as insufficient amount of organic fertilizers, excessive use of mineral fertilizers and chemical means of plant protection, consumer attitude to land, and narrow specialization of enterprises are the main reasons of land quality deterioration. Thus, to save the quality indices of soil of agricultural lands, arable farming should be run according to the environmental standards, systems of arable farming should be ecologically safe, soil-protective, energy saving, and adopted to the corresponding soil-climatic conditions of the different regions of Ukraine. The author of the work argues that, at the current stage, the humanity faces the challenge to secure the interaction of the production system components, which would support the correlation of high rates of economic growth and satisfaction of human needs with protection and reclamation of the environmental quality, and particularly quality of agricultural land.

KEY WORDS

greening of arable farming, land reform, amalgamated territorial community, quality indices of soil, land relations

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Article received 07.04.2020.