Soil protection: environmental rents as an incentive for organic farming

The purpose of the article is to cover a methodological aspect of the allocation of environmental rents to producers of organic products from one hand, and to consider the formation in Ukraine of an effective system of state regulation and protection of soil, as well as to consolidate the existing management experience in the sphere of organic farming technologies from another hand. Research methods. The following scientific methods were used in the research process: dialectical methods of knowledge of processes and phenomena; monographic method (for analysis of the evolution of scientific achievements of Ukrainian and foreign scholars on problems of rational land use); empirical method (for a complex assessment of current state of the research object); abstract and logical (for theoretical generalizations and formulation of conclusions). Research results. As results of research were determined the current state of negative changes in qualitative soil parameters, prospects for reducing the natural soil fertility under the current state of land use and proposed ways for increase soil fertility under conditions of organic farming. Elements of scientific novelty. It was concluded a role and importance of organic agriculture in the agriculture. Foreign experience of management of organic farming and adopting practices were investigated. Place of ecological rent as an incentive for the development of organic farming was established. Environmental rent is a kind of monopoly rent, which is formed on healed lands suitable for organic farming. Practical significance. Maintenance of a content of high-quality humus in soils is the most important task of agriculture, it is a basis for sustainable cultivation, the main factor of soil fertility, and the main actuality of the national food security for Ukraine in current geopolitical realities. Organic farming is supported by the community, specifically economic agents support monopoly high prices for organic, environmentally friendly products, and destroy the monopoly high ecological rent consumed by a producer, who improved soil conditions at its own expense. Organic farming must be supported by state incentives, such as preferential taxation, public procurement, subsidies. Land ownership rights should be determined by the state and form rules of conduct of an owner and land user with restrictions in the interests of society and future generations. Refs.: 18.