PARADIGMS FOR IMPROVING THE PRODUCTIVITY OF SLOPE SITES
The article presents a new method and a laboratory sample of the unit, allowing to mechanize labor-intensive work in mountainous areas. Purpose of the work: to present a block-module of a combined aggregate for raking stones with simultaneous automatic sowing of grass seeds on degraded phytocenoses of mountain meadows and pastures. The object of research is replaceable working bodies: seeding modules of a small cultivator. The novelty of the technical solution lies in the fact that a small-sized universal cultivator, after minor adjustments, makes it possible to improve the species composition of grasses in meadows and pastures, increase labor productivity and productivity, improve the water-air regime of the soil, and reduce degradation processes. Research machines were carried out on the high-mountain experimental site in the village. Dargavs of Prigorodny district of North Ossetia - Alania.