Organic agriculture as a tool for sustainable regional development

¹ Southern Federal University, 105/42, Bolshaya Sadovaya Street, Rostov-on-Don, 344006, Russia
² Russian University of Economics named after G.V. Plekhanov, 36, Stremyanniy Lane, Moscow, 117997, Russia
³ Novocherkassk Engineering and Reclamation Institute named after A.K. Kortunov – branch of FSBEI VO “Don State Agrarian University”, 11, Pushkinskaya Street, Novocherkassk, 346428, Russia

^* Corresponding author: rrevunov@mail.ru

Abstract

Purpose the study is the study of multidimensionality, multicomponent and multifactor problems of organic farming at the meso- economic level, taking into account natural-climatic, territorial- geographical, social and environmental characteristics of the region. To achieve these goals, it is necessary to solve a number of key tasks: to establish the main attributes of organic agricultural production, to substantiate the socio-ecological-economic tools of adaptation of optimal environ mental practices of agrarian production in the context of the Rostov region of the Russian Federation, to verify the fundamental principles of the effectiveness of territorial-organizational environmental protection measures. Methodological basis is based on the analysis of normative-legal literature in the field of nature management, synthesis of ideological-theoretical and substantive approaches to the problem of organic agricultural production, grouping of attributive features of the agrarian nature management system. Object researches – modern agricultural practice of the Rostov region, which is a region of the Russian Federation with a significant natural-climatic spatial disaggregation of crop growing areas, which determines an ecologically rational choice of territories for organic farming. Subject foreign experience of applying socio-economic and institutional-legal tools to ensure rational environmental management. The factors limiting the development of organic agricultural production in the Rostov region of the Russian Federation were revealed, namely: insufficient efficiency of state support, imperfect mechanisms of certification of organic products, high final cost of organic products, municipal districts of the region with the potential for the development of organic agriculture.