CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO THE ASSESSMENT OF UNUSED AGRICULTURAL AREAS

Abstract

The working hypothesis of the research is the possibility of priority development of currently unused, wasteland areas or fallow, including previously reclaimed agricultural land for the production of organic farming products. An algorithm has been developed for the use of wasteland areas for the production of organic products, which includes several groups of assessments: general, geo-oriented, ecological, sanitary and phytosanitary. The result of solving the algorithm is a reasoned judgment about the compliance of the land plot with the requirements of organic farming or rejection of this assumption. In the case of a positive decision is made about the use of lands for the organic products production, it implies conducting research in four more stages, each of which retains the possibility of deviation the project. In the first three stages the internal regulator of the project is involved in making a decision, while in the fourth, the decision is make by an external regulator in relation to the project initiators. Using the proposed algorithm it is possible to systematically approach the creation of organic agriculture projects on unused wasteland or fallow areas, to streamline the assessment system with the least resource consumption.