Maintaining the economic safety of environmental activities in agriculture

Abstract

Abstract This article is devoted to the study of directions to ensure a sufficient level of economic safety of farms. The multifactorial nature of threats to the external environment and internal factors determining various aspects of economic safety of agricultural enterprises is determined by their wide range and complexity of influence. The high level of risk that results from such influence, on the one hand, makes the activities of such enterprises economically vulnerable but, on the other hand, makes this business attractive. Calculations on the basis of empirical agricultural data confirm that from 40 to 60% of income (depending on location and weather conditions) they can lose from inappropriate groundwater table and not sufficient meliorative state of soils. To substantially reduce this figure and to increase the level of economic safety, it is proposed to optimise the parameters of drainage systems and achieve land reclamation improvement by constructing a water discharge justification model as a key factor for achieving necessary drainage rates. In addition, the use of crop diversification model within justified crop rotations will allow to significantly increase the level of economic safety of farms by optimizing price risks.