ЛИМАННОЕ ОРОШЕНИЕ НА КООПЕРАТИВНОЙ ОСНОВЕ

Abstract

The need for the development of irrigated agriculture in Russia is due to the fact that more than two-thirds of its agricultural land is located in regions characterized by frequent years with high air temperatures and low rainfall during the growing season of plants. In the Soviet period, estuary irrigation played an important role in organizing fodder production on farms located in arid steppe and semi-desert regions of the Volga region. At that time, the area of each estuary irrigation system did not go beyond the boundaries of the territory of one farm - a collective farm or a state farm. However, the appearance, as a result of the agrarian transformations of the 90s of the last century, of many small owners and tenants had a negative impact on the development of estuary irrigation. On some part of the land plots of estuary systems, farms or other small farms were organized. Most of these lands, received by former workers of collective and state farms in the process of privatization in the form of land shares, are currently not used in any way. As one of the effective means of ensuring the effective functioning of estuary irrigation systems in modern conditions, the authors substantiated the formation of agricultural consumer cooperatives for land reclamation services. The relevance of this study is due to the need to develop a fodder base, which provides a significant increase in the level of efficiency of farms that traditionally specialize in the production of livestock products in arid regions. The creation of reclamation cooperatives will allow several subjects of agricultural production, operating within the boundaries of one estuary irrigation system, to jointly solve numerous problems related to irrigation on an equal basis and ensure the maximum return on the flooded hectare while reducing costs per unit of production. The advantages of organizing forage production on estuary irrigated lands on a cooperative basis are disclosed. The necessity of including a regional organization of melio-water management, which is the operator of irrigation engineering structures, is substantiated.