HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF METHODS OF NATURAL-LIKE NON-DESTRUCTIVE LAND MANAGEMENT IN RUSSIAN FARMING
Objective. Identification of historical experience in the development and implementation of methods of nature - like non - destructive land use in the works of the classics of domestic agriculture, studying of scientists' contribution to agronomy, theory and practice of resource - saving land use. Materials and methods . The object of the research is the agronomical heritage of the best Russian agronomy scientists and agronomists - practitioners, that took the Black Soil region of Russia with its shaky fertility and frequent droughts, followed by an almost continuous sequence, and especially terrible drought in 1891 and 1892, which gave rise to unprecedented suffering, poverty and hunger population of Russia, as the subject of close study. To achieve this goal, methods of theoretical primary sources content analysis, generalization and systematization of the obtained results were used. Results . The most remarkable works in the integrated approach to identifying the causes of increased aridity and reduced fertility of steppe soils are written by V.V. Dokuchaev, K.A.Timiryazev, P.A. Kostichev, and A.A. Izmailsky, who showed that arid manifestations are not always climatic, but almost exclusively soil - landscape, often “prepared” by agricultural practice. They pointed out that the agriculture of the 19th century, in the steppe regions of the country, was a kind of stock - exchange gambling, which, regardless of the original landscape violation, was aimed only at extracting the maximum profit. With this approach, there is nothing surprising in the more and more frequent recurrences of droughts. Conclusion. The previous generations of ingenious domestic agricultural scientists have accumulated experience in designing profitable, non - destructive and ecologically oriented agrolandscapes. Proper application of modern smart land use techniques to this foundation can be considered as a real way out of the environmental crisis, since it is the landscape approach that gives the most stable and reliable results when introducing methods of nature - like non - destructive land use around the world.