Monitoring and certification of agricultural land by creating a bank of information resources for the rational use of steppe landscapes of the Western Ciscaucasia

The improvement of economic efficiency and reproduction of soil fertility require today a comprehensive study, qualitative characteristics, quantitative and cost assessment of the land. A certain imbalance exists today in the use of land and the preservation of soil fertility. Certification contributes to the rapid development and adoption of management decisions, as well as operational monitoring of agricultural landscapes. The subject of the research is the main integral indicators of soil fertility and degradation processes of agroecological monitoring in the system of land evaluation procedures within the steppe landscapes of the Western Ciscaucasia. The authors have identified the need for a number of measures: to analyze the structure of the lands of administrative districts, which are part of the IV accumulative plain landscape of the Chelbas and Beisug rivers basins with plowed steppes in 2017, to monitor the main integrated indicators of soil fertility of agricultural land steppe landscapes of the Western Ciscaucasia, to substantiate the approval of form "Passport of quality of soils of Krasnodar territory» by legislation.