“Soil microorganisms - plants - animals” system as an interdisciplinary object of macro-level management (in agriculture and economics)

Ренат Римович Зайнуллин

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Известия Тимирязевской сельскохозяйственной академии. 2 / 2020

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Ренат Римович Зайнуллин

The author has analyzed visual-figurative and verbal-logical representation of a control object in the sciences related to agriculture (agricultural chemistry, soil science, biology, ecology, agrocenology, etc.). Conclusion has been made that visual-figurative description of the control object in agroecosystems is not sufficient enough while verbal-logical representation is quite sufficient. As a result, the significant amount of information can be inaccessible for general public and, to some extent, “entailed” for focused experts. One of the most important consequences of the socio-economic system management is that the use of mineral and energy resources in Russia is incorrectly prioritized in the production and consumption system at the macro level, while the balance of biophilic elements in agriculture stays negative. For improving the visual-figurative representation of the knowledge amount contained by the above noted sciences, it is proposed to formalize and graphically display the biogenic cycle of nutrients in agriculture (biological cycle in agroecosystems) in the form of a “soil microorganisms - plants - animals system”, i.e. as the metabolizing system of three groups of organisms. The author has drawn a conclusion that the “soil microorganisms - plants - animals system” system management corresponds to the goals of such concepts as “rational use of natural resources and land use”, “sustainable development”, and “circular economy”. A proposal has been put forward to consider the “coefficient of biological cycle completeness” as an integral index that means the effectiveness of government administration of sustainable development policy in relation to environmental economics and, as a consequence, soil fertility. The author believes that unlike “the balance of biophile elements”, this index is sensitive to the source of raw materials and reflects the dynamic properties of the system.

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