Balance of the territorial organization of agricultural landscapes of the eastern division: scientific-methodical and practical approaches

Abstract

«Sustainable Development Strategy of Ukraine until 2030» provides for the introduction of effective and scientifically sound methods of agricultural production, which would contribute to the preservation of agro-ecosystems, increase their adaptive capacity to withstand climate change (adverse weather events, droughts, floods), improve environmental lands and soils. However, without the balance of the territorial organization of the state of agricultural landscapes it is impossible to achieve this goal. We analyzed the balance of the territorial organization of modern agricultural landscapes of Eastern Podillya, which is 4.4% of the total area of Ukraine, where the share of the region in total agricultural production is 12.3%. Currently, the main destabilizing factors of agricultural land in the structure of agricultural landscapes of Eastern Podillya are: high plowing of agricultural land (average in the region is 75.2%), low level of humus in soils (2.7%), insufficient levels of nutrients (nitrogen 82.0 mg/kg, phosphorus 83.5 mg/kg, potassium 109.9 mg/kg), practically no crop rotations (53% are occupied by cereals and legumes, 32% by industrial crops, 8% by potatoes and vegetables). According to our calculations, it has been established that part of the land of district communities belongs to the ecologically unstable or stably unstable category of land. The lowest level of environmental stability is observed in the central and south-eastern communities. For further balanced development of agrolandscapes of the East Podolsk region, scientific-theoretical and practical approaches to the functioning of agroecosystems are substantiated and a set of measures to comply with the environmentally friendly state of agricultural land use is proposed. The priority areas of balan­cing the territorial organization of agro-landscapes of the region and improving their ecological condition are measures of regulatory, institutional, technical and economic and organizational and land management. Observance of these measures will provide an opportunity to use significant reserves to increase agricultural production, ensure significant «rehabilitation» of agricultural landscapes and improve the living conditions of the rural population.