Productivity and efficiency of intensive technologies of cereal crops cultivation in the 80s of the 20th century in Western Siberia

The longest period of usage of intensive technologies in growing of cereals on collective and state farms fields in Western Siberia not only allowed to master in the conditions of production its individual elements, but also to identify the gaps, which didn’t allow to complete the assigned task. They were mainly related to improving of the scientific research and experimental design works, Integration forms of science and industry, and development of new forms of organization of labor and remuneration. The generalization of the results obtained under practical conditions of farms and different regions of Western Siberia territory showed that indicators of economic and technological efficiency vary quite significantly by region.Thus, the grain yield in 1985-1986 gg. It ranged from 5.2 centners per hectare in the Omsk region to 7.2 centners per hectare in the Tyumen region. According to natural-economic zones were also observed fluctuations in yield increase. The most significant of them were in the southern forest-steppe zone, whose economy had higher crop farming culture. In addition, for the steppe areas it was identified that agrotechnical, organizational and economic elements of intensive technologies of cultivation of grain, along with the optimization of mineral nutrients, should be directed to the neutralization of negative weather conditions, the master of which are the countermeasures to atmospheric moisture deficit. As a result, development of intensive technologies, along with other organizational and economic activities led to positive results. Thus, in the Omsk region in the middle of the 1985-1987 growth of spring wheat yield was 5.3 centners, grain production cost was lower than the one with traditional technology of production by 7.5%, and 1.97 rbl. of revenue was produced for 1 rbl. of additional costs. Calculations showed that with the level of costs in those years on 1 hectare of crops and additional costs for elements of intensive technologies, its development was economically feasible in the acquiring of the overall yield increase ranging from 4 centners per hectare, when 1 rub. of additional investment gave not less than 1.5 rubles of additional production. At the same time the size of the required yield increase was influenced by zoning factor.