Efficiency of using arable lands in agricultural enterprise

With introduction of land reforms in Russia radical changes in the area of rearrangement, construction, and land use occurred. Large agricultural enterprises still share the first place among users of commercial products. The purpose of the present work is to conduct evaluation of efficiency of arable lands’ usage in large farming firms on the example of Belgorod oblast. The territory of Belgorod oblast, which includes 21 municipal regions, is divided into 3 agro-climatic regions according to agro-climatic zonation. The efficiency of using arable lands was evaluated by several factorial and effective criteria within every agro-climatic region. Using methods of multiple statistic evaluation (hierarchic-factorial, cluster and incremental discriminate), a comparative estimation of arable lands’ usage in farming firms was carried out. According to the results of the conducted evaluation, the northwest agro-climatic region is characterized by favorable conditions and soil capabilities. The highest crop yield was received as well as the crops of white beets, and sunflowers. The unidirectional changes in studied criteria were established: general area of organization, general sowing area, areas taken for crops, sunflowers, white beets, and gross output in value measures. Agricultural lands wtre used in full scale, including tillable lands, which were discovered in organizations with high cadastral value of arable lands. Therefore, on the example of Belgorod it was proven that under prosperous soil-climatic conditions efficiency of using arable lands is primarily determined by economic organization resources.