Abstract:

Field tests were carried out under conditions of the Volga region on weakly washed-off gray forest soils in 2005-2014. The goal was to reveal the effectiveness of traditional and resource-saving technologies of cereals cultivation with mini-tillage and no-tillage. The traditional technology significantly yielded to the minimal processing in the output of grain by 2.7 %; in the output of fodder units - by 2.4 %; in the value of the major produce and by-products - by 2.3. The most value of the major produce and by-products (30243.4 rub/ha) obtained in the variant with the zero processing. It was higher than the values of this indicator in the variants with the minimum tillage and traditional plowing by 43.6 and 186.6 rub/ha or 0.1 and 0.6 %, respectively.