The economic efficiency of the No-till technology by the example of spring wheat

Abstract

In the recent years, the interest of Russian agricultural producers to various kinds of energy-saving technologies, such as the No-tilltechnology, has grown considerably. The purpose of such technologies is to facilitate the production of competitive products through use of the adjustable factors. The research work conducted by the authors involved studying the influence of the No-till technology with use of a complex of agents and compound fertilisers on the yield and quality of the spring wheat grain. Based on the conducted research work, the authors have revealed the combinations of agents that are most efficient for foliar nutrition and also have analysed the use of these agents and fertilisers in the conditions of the direct inoculation from the economic perspective. The research results have enabled to calculate the economic efficiency of the spring wheat cultivation with use of the No-till technology involving the application of complex of agents and compound fertilisers. The use of fertilisers, growth stimulants and biopreparations as foliar nutritions in the No-till technologies increase the spring wheat yield capacity by 1,3-19,5 % if there was a single foliar nutrition, by 8,1-40,0% if there were two nutritions; the gluten content increases by 0,4-5,8% in case of a single nutrition, and by 1,0-12,1% – in case of two nutritions. The contingent net profit at use of a single foliar nutrition amounted to 599,6-2696,6 roubles per hectar, subject to a particular nutrition variant. At use of two nutritions, the amount of the contingent net profit was 451,6-6473,3 roubles per hectar. Proposals concerning the spring wheat cultivation using the No-till technologies can be used in developing of a system for fertilising cereal crops in order to obtain the products of low costs and high quality.