Measuring ecological and economic effectiveness of agricultural soil usage

Abstract

Today's stage of agrarian activity brings to birth a number of contradictions and crisis phenomena in the «man-agroecosystem» relationships, including those in irrational usage of soil resources. For a real implementation of practical directions of enhancing ecological and economic effectiveness of the above soils, the author suggests to complement the reporting of agricultural companies by ecological and economic indicators, which reflect its ecological image and could be used as a basis for the control and accounting.