Natalya Sukhomlinova¹ and Vyacheslav Polyakov²

 ¹ Novocherkassk Engineering and Land Reclamation Institute. 346400 Novocherkassk, Russian Federation

² Don State Technical University, 344003 Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation

Abstract

The article discusses the mechanism for the practical implementation of the procedure for agroecological zoning of agricultural lands as a modern tool to increase the level of adaptability and efficiency of agricultural production. At the same time, special attention is paid to the analysis of the use of an adaptive-landscape approach within the framework of this procedure, which is focused on the formation of a dynamic landscape structure of the territory. In addition, the necessity of using nature-like technologies that are most adequate to the local specifics, allowing to ensure the most effective interaction between the natural and production subsystems of the agroecosystem, is substantiated. On the example of the analysis of such a procedure in six rural settlements of the Rostov region belonging to different natural and agricultural zones, the economic and environmental efficiency of the implementation of measures for agroecological zoning is shown. The calculations made indicate that the rate of increase in the cost parameters of natural resource capital due to the implementation of the proposed measures for agroecological zoning based on the adaptive landscape approach exceeds the growth dynamics of the total cost of manufactured products, which indicates the presence of a synergistic effect due to their implementation