Economic evaluation of the services of forestry melioration on slope land

The current state of agrosystems that dominate the area in the landscape of the forest-steppe and steppe is characterized by its weak stability and falling productivity as a result of water erosion of soils. Forest amelioration arrangement of agricultural land can significantly reduce the processes of surface washout of soils, the fall of their fertility, the growth of ravines. The protective plantations acquire special importance in connection with the transition to a green economy, the development of the farmer’s movement, the growing pollution of the environment and the anticipated changes in the global climate. The article contains the economic classification of the numerous spectrums of service functions of the runoff-regulating forest belts on the sloping plow land. With reference to different natural and climatic conditions of the South of the European territory of Russia, an assessment of the total ecological and economic effect obtained from the afforestation of erosion-hazardous agrolandscapes is presented...