Development of Resource Saving Strategy in Economic Activity of Agricultural Enterprises

This article is dedicated to the development of an effective strategy for resource saving, to encourage the process of investing in resource saving technologies and the introduction of an efficient program for resource saving, especially in an agricultural enterprise, which has their own specific features. The basic idea behind most of the individual measures proposed in our strategy is to en-courage efficient behavior in a way that it is compatible with an incentive while leaving the details of individual measures open and not making them mandatory. In this way the exist-ing market mechanisms would hardly be affected. Resource saving strategy is built upon ecologically clean agriculture production and related practices to accelerate the application of preventive environmental strategies to processes, products and services to increase effi-ciency and reduce risks to humans and the environment. The efficient use of the production potential of agricultural production in a general form is an essence of resource saving strat-egy. Reducing the resource usage could be achieved only to the limits technology factors, which could be lowered by the introduction of resource-saving crop rotation, introduction of low-cost technologies and new varieties. Saving technologies aim at reducing direct labor, materials and production processes, environmental compliance impacts on land resources, improving the quality and stability of production and profit. Taking into account all the is-sues listed above, we in the article proposed concept of resource saving strategy in econom-ic activity of agricultural enterprises.

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