Assessment of land productivity in agriculture Republic of Moldova and Orel region

The most important wealth of any country or region is land, the productive power of which should be used to the full extent to provide the population with food and food security in general, this is its significance. The study is aimed at assessing the dynamics of land productivity in the production of grain and leguminous crops in the Republic of Moldova and the Orel region of Russia over the past 10 years and substantiating the reserves of its growth through the intensification of the industry, including the introduction of innovations. The objects of the research are farms of all categories and all forms of ownership of the Republic of Moldova and the Orel region for 2011-2020. Comparison of these two regions in terms of the analyzed indicators is quite reasonable, since the area under grain and leguminous crops in 2020 in the Republic of Moldova and the Orel region was similar and reached the level of 957 and 949 thousand hectares respectively. The observed trend of their expansion had a fluctuating character, but a fast pace was shown in the Orel region. In the process of assessing the dynamics of land productivity in the production of grain and leguminous crops in the compared regions, calculations of the stability (sustainability) indicators of the production of grain and leguminous crops were carried out by means of linear and polynomial trends over the researched period. The graph of polynomial trends clearly demonstrated a steady upward trend in the yield of grain and leguminous crops in the Orel region, while in the Republic of Moldova it was observed only during 2011-2016, and then there was a decline in land productivity. The annual increase in the productivity of grain and leguminous crops and the potential indicators of land productivity in the regions or the predicted values of their productivity are also calculated.