Changes in the agriculture specialization Cherkasy region over 10 years
Abstract
Production typology of agriculture is the most recent direction of geographical research in agriculture, which has its roots in the 19th century. However, the decline in its popularity in recent decades is associated with an extremely complex and labor-intensive method that involves the processing of large data sets. Assessments of the ecological impact on landscapes of certain combinations of industries are extremely relevant. Assessments of environmental services provided by agro-ecosystems are also relevant today.
Purpose. Justification of ecologically tolerant specialization of farms from the standpoint of agro-ecosystem dynamics inherent in the conditions and resources of the region.
Methods. Field, cartographic, statistical, system analysis.
The results. The allocation of production types of farms in dynamics in the territory of Cherkasy region (2014-2024 years) allows to get closer to the evaluation of environmental services. In particular, the noted increase of almost sixfold in the number of farms in 2024 compared to 2014 allows us to state a tendency to decrease the area of an individual farm, which generally indicates the "incorporation" of land use into the existing structure of landscapes. However, hopes for real biodiversity support by the agro-ecosystems being formed in the Cherkasy region will remain futile for a long time to come. Among the selected types of agriculture, monocultures prevail. Probably, under the influence of the laws of the market economy, farmers try to get the maximum profit from the land. Separate measures to overcome these contradictions are proposed
Conclusions. In the conditions of ultra-intensive agriculture, the main theoretical approaches of the typology of agriculture can play with new, brighter colors. A possible way of "incorporating" the specialization of agriculture into existing natural landscapes and ecosystems can be, on the one hand, the reduction of the size of one farm, and on the other hand, the diversification of ecosystem relations through mixed sowing of grain mixtures (with legumes), increasing the share of hay and pastures.
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