Assessment of Environmental Sustainability and Stability of Crop Production Technological Processes

Introduction. The increased anthropogenic impact of technological tools leads to a violation of the environmental sustainability and stability of crop production technological processes that has a negative effect on the existing agrarian landscape. Because of a significant number of single environmental indicators, the assessment of the environmental sustainability of technological processes is usually carried out without ranking their significance and without taking into account individual natural and climatic characteristics that significantly affect the agricultural production system. At the same time, there has not been developed a necessary approach for assessing the environmental sustainability with a high measure of reliability. Aim of the Study. The study is aimed at justifying the criteria and proposing an assessment of the degree environmental sustainability and stability of technological processes in crop production. Materials and Methods. The study was based on the use of analytical methods and the synthesis of scientific results obtained by various authors. There was employed statistic modeling of processes that made it possible to identify the patterns of these processes, determine and reasonably choose significant factors influencing the environmental sustainability and stability of the processes. Results. There have been developed partial and integral criteria for assessing environmental sustainability and stability of crop production technological processes. There are given the examples of criteria calculation and the assessment of environmental sustainability and stability of the technological processes of transportation and application of liquid organic fertilizers to the soil. There has been substantiated the scale of assessment of technological processes based on the values of the integral evaluation criterion. According to the environmental sustainability degree, the authors propose to divide technological processes into stable, medium-stable, unstable and with high entropy. Discussion and Conclusion. The authors proposed criteria for assessing environmental sustainability and stability in crop production technological processes, which can be used for developing mobile apps, platforms, and logistics solutions to improve industry efficiency, labor productivity, product quality, etc.