Assessment of the preconditions for the development of organic agriculture

Abstract

This study presents an assessment of the prerequisites for the development of agriculture in the world and in modern economic and social conditions, in particular, its key factors that have shaped the current state of the global development of the organic products market are identified. In the course of the research, emphasis was placed on the main individualistic reasons for the need for organic food. The chronological genesis of the emergence of such needs was determined and it was found that the main, global need for organic food products arose as a result of rapid and uncontrolled industrial progress, which caused the formation of relevant environmental needs, which is discussed in this study. The paper presents the classification of environmental needs in the form of an interlevel characteristic. It was determined that in the process of historical-evolutionary transformation of organic production, as a direction of scientific and practical activity, the main task of organic agriculture is to create a number of important public goods, improve the state of agricultural resources, as well as ensure a stable state of the natural environment. Regarding the development of organic agriculture in Ukraine, in the course of this study it was found that the main prerequisite for the emergence of such a direction in our country is the industrialization of agriculture and the course for non-renewable resources of industrial origin, including chemicals (mineral fertilizers, pesticides), hydrocarbon fuel and energy resources, agricultural machinery. Accordingly, it should be noted that organic agriculture can function through a standard system with consumers or the market, in the form of service agriculture, as well as at the level of farmers who are aware of the unsustainability of traditional agriculture. Also, in the course of this study, it was found that modern organic agriculture acquires the necessary features of sustainable agriculture, as it is one of the priority directions declared in a number of state regulatory and legal acts, as well as in priority tasks in accordance with the national goals of sustainable development of Ukraine.