THEORETICAL PRINCIPLES OF CONDUCTING AGROCHEMICAL CERTIFICATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LAND USE

• Main Author: I.S. Kuzmenko
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine 2019-09-01
• Series: Zemleustrìj, Kadastr ì Monìtorìng Zemelʹ
• Online Access: http://journals.nubip.edu.ua/index.php/Zemleustriy/article/view/13404/11993
• ISSN: 2306-1677; 2518-7325

Organic farming is a promising area for agricultural production, with environmentally safe and rational land use. The aim of sustainable land management is to optimize the activities of agricultural workers to improve the environmental, economic and social dynamics of agricultural sector development by maintaining and improving the quality of soils and consumption products. Development of ecologically safe land use with the use of geoinformation technologies is possible due to the creation of a database of enterprises engaged in organic farming, which will provide information not only about the state of land resources, but also about the main causes of soil quality deterioration based on agrochemical indicators. Due to the nature and complexity of land issues, geoinformation systems help solve land management issues and analyze the agri-environmental status of territories. At the same time, this spatial stratification contributes to the involvement of farmers and local governments in the overall process of improving agriculture and environmental management. Geoinformation systems in agrochemical certification are focused on preventive maintenance, not rehabilitation, and provide methodology and approach to integrate socio-economic, biological and biochemical information needed to improve green land use strategies. The novelty of this study is to improve the processes of providing landowners with information on soils by creating and filling up a registration database for agricultural enterprises engaged in organic farming based on agrochemical certification.