Ensuring Biosphere Balance in the Context of Agricultural Waste Management

Abstract

The article focuses on the relationship between the state of the biosphere and the development of non-waste agricultural production. The objective character of the increasing level of the agricultural business activity’s intensity, which generates considerable waste, intensifies adequate resource use. The accelerated development of the non-waste production at the agriculture becomes relevant for the rational combination of this business’s effectiveness, ecological safety and social orientation of the business and economic activities. The study specifies the role of science for setting up the “science — technology — non-waste agriculture — society” system. The article considers the importance of nonwaste agricultural production for the rational use of raw-materials and energy at the “raw materials — production — consumption — secondary raw materials” cycle and the ecological balance in the biosphere, thereby taking us closer to noosphere. The features of the “mental” attitude to the agroresidues’ problem at the national and global levels are disclosed. The article highlights the complex economic, social, ecological, and institutional indicators necessary for the effectiveness of agricultural non-waste production.

Keywords

• biosphere
• resource efficiency
• agro-residues
• agricultural production
• noosphere
• circular economy