Determining the Energy Efficiency of Corn, Sun-flower and Soybean Cultivation with the Use of Ridge Technology

Abstract

The article presents the developed energy-saving, resource-saving ridge technology for cultivating row crops and means of mechanization for its implementation allows increasing the yield of row crops on average in 5 years up to 38% without the use of environmentally unsafe herbicides. The implementation of ridge technology to cultivate corn for grain, sunflower and soybeans, the energy efficiency coefficients, respectively, amounted to 15.54; 9.71 and 3.43 units, which is by 0.6; 3.81 and 4.41 units more in comparison with the traditional technology of cultivation of the aforesaid crops on a flat surface of the field.