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Artículo de investigación Regional aspects of research of agricultural enterprises of ecological orientation

Региональные аспекты исследования сельскохозяйственных предприятий экологической направленности Региональные аспекты исследования сельскохозяйственных предприятий экологической направленности

Aspectos regionales de investigación de empresas agrícolas de orientación ecológica

Recibido: 22 de agosto del 2019 Aceptado: 18 de septiembre del 2019

Written by: Roman V. Kapinos230 Nikolaj M. Echin231 Natalya I. Chovgan232 Olga S. Akupiyan233 Dmitriy P. Kravchenko234

Abstract Аннотация

The article is devoted to the study of the Статья посвящена исследованию economic phenomenon of eco-settlement in the экономического феномена экопоселения в regional economy. The author's interpretation of экономике региона. Введено авторское the concept of regional economy is introduced, толкование понятия региональной the classification of regional farms according to a экономики, проведена классификация number of criteria is carried out. A new definition региональных хозяйств по ряду критериев. of eco-settlements is proposed. The classification Предложено новое определение эко- of modern eco-villages is given. A number of new поселений. Дана классификация and traditional eco-settlements have been современных эко-сел. Ряд новых и thoroughly investigated. The importance of eco- традиционных эко-поселений были settlements for the economy, ecology and society тщательно исследованы. Показана важность is shown. The study was performed within the эко-поселений для экономики, экологии и research work of the educational-scientific общества. Работа выполнена в рамках laboratory of regional economy cooperation and научно-исследовательской работы учебно- integration, agriculture, development of rural научной лаборатории регионального territories of the Belgorod state agricultural экономического сотрудничества и UNIVERSITY named after V. Gorin, supervisor- интеграции, сельского хозяйства, освоения associate Professor R. V. Kapinos (in the сельских территорий Белгородского framework of the agreement No. 6.9.30 of 28 государственного сельскохозяйственного March 2018.) in the framework of the internal университета им. В. Горина, научного grant of Belgorod state agricultural руководителя-доцента Р. В. Капиноса (в UNIVERSITY (order No. 202-3 from 18.04.19). рамках договор № 6.9.30 от 28 марта 2018 г.)

230 Candidate of economic Sciences, associate Professor, Department of economic theory and Economics of agroindustrial complex of Belgorod state agrarian University named after V. Ya. Gorin, researcher at the Belgorod theological Seminary (with a missionary orientation) 231 Candidate of sociological Sciences, associate Professor, Department of economic theory and Economics of agroindustrial complex of Belgorod state agrarian University named after V. Ya. Gorin 232 Candidate of economic Sciences, associate Professor, Department of economic theory and Economics of agroindustrial complex of Belgorod state agrarian University named after V. Ya. Gorin 233 Candidate of economic Sciences, associate Professor, Department of economic theory and Economics of agroindustrial complex of Belgorod state agrarian University named after V. Ya. Gorin 234 Candidate of economic Sciences, associate Professor, Department of economic theory and Economics of agroindustrial complex of Belgorod state agrarian University named after V. Ya. Gorin

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Key Words: Regional economy, eco-settlements, в рамках внутреннего гранта Белгородского economy, ecology, definition, classification of государственного сельскохозяйственного farms, principles of eco-settlements. университета (приказ № 202-3 от 18.04.19 г.).

Ключевые слова: региональная экономика, экопоселения, экономика, экология, определение, классификация хозяйств, принципы экопоселения.

Resumen

El artículo está dedicado al estudio del fenómeno económico del eco-asentamiento en la economía regional. Se introduce la interpretación del autor del concepto de economía regional, se lleva a cabo la clasificación de las granjas regionales de acuerdo con una serie de criterios. Se propone una nueva definición de eco- asentamientos. Se da la clasificación de las ecoaldeas modernas. Se han investigado a fondo varios asentamientos ecológicos nuevos y tradicionales. Se muestra la importancia de los eco-asentamientos para la economía, la ecología y la sociedad. El estudio se realizó dentro del trabajo de investigación del laboratorio educativo-científico de cooperación e integración de la economía regional, agricultura, desarrollo de territorios rurales de la UNIVERSIDAD agrícola estatal de Belgorod que lleva el nombre de V. Gorin, profesor supervisor asociado RV Kapinos (en el marco de el acuerdo n. ° 6.9.30 de 28 de marzo de 2018) en el marco de la concesión interna de la UNIVERSIDAD agrícola estatal de Belgorod (orden n. ° 202-3 del 18.04.19).

Palabras clave: Economía regional, eco-asentamientos, economía, ecología, definición, clasificación de fincas, principios de eco-asentamientos.

Introduction

The concept of regional economy, despite what 1) Simple regions; was proposed in the middle of the last century, is 2) Regions-conglomerates. still in the process of its final formation. From the point of view of the ecological By regional economy can be understood: situation:

1) Part of the territorial (local, regional) 1) Ecologically clean regions. economy – the economy of the village, 2) Moderately polluted regions. town, city. 3) The Regions most dangerous to human 2) Part of the national economy-the life. economy of the region, the Republic, In terms of environmental impact: the land. 3) Part of the world economy – the 1) Regions with low environmental national economy. impact. 2) Regions with an average degree of But "region" we can allocate not only on environmental impact. territorial coverage, but also by degree of 3) Regions with a high degree of influence on: environmental impact.

− Other economic entities; By the degree of influence on public policy: − On all society (society): 1) Regions that determine state policy; 1) Points of active (intense) influence; 2) Regions-lobbyists of local interests; 2) Points of passive (short-term, 3) Regions that are politically indifferent. intermittent) influence; 3) Indifferent point – have no effect. In terms of growth rates:

By degree of difficulty: 1) The most developed regional economies;

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2) Regressive regions; Minimum use of technical devices in 3) Stagnant regions. everyday life; Religious ideology that unites a group At the same time, eco-settlements can operate of settlers; within any of the following types of regional Maximizing collective labor; economy: at the village level, the town, even Maximization of collective property. within the city, often acting as a backbone of the settlement; both within the region with a growing However, not in every eco-village we can find all economy, and in conditions of stagnating and the signs listed by us: in some eco-villages there even regressing regions. is no or very little collective property, collective labor, folk crafts, while the technique can be Latest research and publications analysis widely used both in the economy and in everyday life. Among the characteristic features of almost W. Isard (1952, 1956, 1960, 1971, 1975, 1979, all eco-villages can be identified: 1986, 1988, 1992) the concept of "regional economy" is introduced and an attempt is made 1) Environmental cleanliness of products, to show that the regional economy is a deeply products and services; integrated entity, including an economy based on 2) Striving for maximum minimization of demographic and social changes, and a society the impact on the environment; based on economic transformations. Various 3) Confessional ideology, forming a team eco-settlements have always been an integral part of like-minded people. of such a regional integrated economy. Among modern theorists of development of regional Classifying eco-settlements from the point of farms it is necessary to name widely known V. view of ideology, it is possible to distinguish: Megre (1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2010), who proposed the original concept 1. Ideological – a classic example-Tolstoy of ancestral possessions. Thanks to scientific community, all economic life which expeditions and theoretical research of associate was based on the ideas of Leo Tolstoy. Professor R. V. Kapinos (2014, 2015, 2018) and In the last century were extremely Academician M. Ya. Lemeshev (2013) problem common around the world – from ecovillages in recent years, it has become Siberia to Japan, from the United States increasingly relevant in economic science. to South Africa. 2. Religious-monasteries, old believer The purpose of the research communities. Some of the old believer farms have existed for two or three give a clear definition of the concept of eco- hundred years continuously, some of settlement and determine its place in the regional the monastery farms for 1,000 years or economy. more. 3. Political – the kibbutzim. To this day, Key results of the research more than a hundred years, remain the most important economic form of The very concept of eco-settlement (eco-village, Israel. ancestral estate, organic village) to date remains 4. Cultural – ancestral homes Megre. uncertain in economic and in General world science – despite the fact that such an economic At the same time, any of these forms of phenomenon has existed throughout the history management can be quite, and in some cases, of mankind. extremely stable. It is noteworthy how the economy, based on artistic fiction – the image of We can say that eco-settlements are agricultural Anastasia Megre – can be durable, existing for settlements based on the principles of: decades, and every year expanding the number of members and spreading around the world. This 1) Ecological purity of the produced; economic sustainability is explained by: 2) Minimal impact on the environment of the surrounding region; 1) The reality of the described situations. 3) Revival of folk crafts; 2) The truth of the doctrine that can Use of natural materials, raw materials positively transform society. and natural fertilizers; 3) The reality of prototypes (Anastasia is a Minimizing the impact of technology on collective image of real people living in the soil; maximum proximity to the wild).

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4) The personal charisma of the author of region, located on the farm HREM'yache - the idea – the charm of a thinker. Korenskie sources. The results showed that the 5) The embodiment of the author of his following organizational and economic ideas in his personal life. principles should be used in the experience of other eco-villages and rural settlements in In the modern Russian economy, there is a General: tendency to believe that eco-movement originated and developed to the greatest extent in 1. The presence of an initiative group, the agriculture in Western Europe and North "ideological core", initially organizing America. the settlement and then actively promoting information about it on the In fact, the entire thousand-year history of the Internet. The economic organization of development of agriculture in Russia, and then an ecological settlement, usually built Russia was based on the principles of either in remote areas or in virgin environmentally friendly, organic farming. forests, is impossible without an active, physically and mentally prepared group, It is necessary to pay special attention to initially ready to endure difficulties and stimulating the growth of eco-settlements in the unpredictable situations. At the same Belgorod region as an agricultural region. We time, such a group should have recommend: considerable experience in the use of modern social networks and computer 1) Create a map of eco-settlements of technologies in General. Belgorod region; 2. Partnerships with local authorities. Eco- 2) Continue scientific expeditions to eco- settlement for its rapid development settlements organized on the basis of the should not be locked in itself, but try to faculty of Economics of Belgorod state immediately, at the initial stage, to build UNIVERSITY named after V. Ya. cooperation with the local authorities. Gorin; 3. The existence of the initial skills and 3) To provide real financial support to the knowledge necessary for occupations in program of development of patrimonial agriculture. The most important farms; principle for eco-settlers is the 4) To develop cooperation between eco- availability of inclinations, skills, settlements; knowledge and, most importantly, the 5) To deepen the integration of UNITS desire to engage in physically difficult, "Agrotechnopark" a and eco- especially in the initial period, settlements of the region. agriculture. 4. Common ideology, ethical and It is necessary to organize a large-scale traditional attitudes among all settlers. expedition to study the experience of organic The experience of eco-settlements in farming of eco-villages of the Belgorod region other countries shows that without a and other regions of the black earth region of the common worldview it is impossible to Russian Federation, and use the information for organize an effective, long-term the development of the regional economy. economy.

Certain developments in this area already exist. How wide is the potential for future eco- In June 2018, the group of students of Belgorod settlements of the Belgorod region (currently state UNIVERSITY scientific guidance of there are 21 in the region), can be judged by our associate Professor of Department of economic survey (table. 4). The survey was conducted in theory and Economics of AIC Kapinos Roman 2018-2019 in 3 Universities of the Belgorod Valerevich (Kapinos, 2014, 2018) researched the region. The number of respondents participating most developed eco-village in the Belgorod in the survey - 300 people.

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Table 1. Results of the study of the attitude of modern Russian youth to development eco-villages of Russia, in%, 2018-19

Possible to Should the eco-villages of Russia to implement the be project of the need eco- academician village in M. Y. Groups Belogorye is Lemeshev not Orthodox pagan it about 100 religious thousand eco- villages in Russia 1st year of NRU 100 50 35 35 30 BelSU 2nd year masters students of the 100 57 57 43 0 Belgorod GAU 2 year correspondence students of the 83 0 33 67 0 Belgorod state agricultural UNIVERSITY 1 course BDSM 69 38 56 13 0 On average, the 88 36 45 40 8 groups

Source: compiled by the author.

Eco-settlements with their further wide spread social and cultural problems of Russia and all and strong state support may well solve most of mankind. the long-standing economic, environmental,

Table 2. Eco-settlements as a form of solving long-standing environmental and economic problems of the twentieth century

Ecological and economic Method of solutions problems of the twentieth century "Environmental diseases". Environmental factors form up to 25% of human pathologies (who). Among the most common in Russia environmental diseases: Search for environmentally friendly sources of asthma (caused by the high water-this event usually begins the creation of any content in the air, chemicals); eco-settlement. immune-depression (in cases of In the future, eco-settlers are taking measures to poisoning with heavy metals and preserve the purity of water sources. dioxins, peculiar inhabitants of New eating habits characteristic of all eco-settlers: industrial areas); "Kirishi" the transition to simple food and periodic starvation syndrome (Allergy caused by the (according to German researchers From the center high content in the air of protein- for joint research at the University of Kiel Christian vitamin concentrates); the disease Albrecht). jusko (the result of high content in the body of polychlorinated biphenyls); chronic fatigue syndrome (a disease caused by

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weakening of the human immune system due to deteriorating environmental conditions); a number of new diseases (symptom of "clapping foot", "yellow children"). Each human body consists on average 70% of water – but water from the source of life is increasingly turning into a life- threatening substance: today, water contains 13 thousand potentially toxic elements (who): heavy metals (lead, mercury, cadmium, zinc, Nickel, chromium) cause atherosclerosis, polyneuritis, hypertension, bone marrow damage, visual impairment; radioactive uranium, plutonium, thorium, strontium lead to cancer, genetic changes, weakened immunity, congenital defects; nitrogen and phosphorus in the human body weaken its immunity, in addition-in water utilities and artesian wells cause the growth of blue-green algae, poorly filtered and producing toxins. Pathogenic microbes that have got into the water together with sewage, cause gastroenteritis, hepatitis, myocarditis, polio and various types of intestinal disorders. Fluorine, chlorine and its compounds-bromine and chloroform, present in water, cause nephritis, hepatitis, toxicosis of pregnancy and congenital anomalies of the fetus, mutagenic effects, weakening of the immune system, damage to the reproductive functions of men and women, cancer of the internal organs. Inflammatory bowel disease - Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, the reason is the imbalance between host immunity and microbes: excessive hygiene, heavy use of antibiotics, the main thing – constant access to a varied diet with a balanced, nutritious diet low in fiber disrupts the symbiotic relationship between the bacteria and organisms- owners, the bacteria begin to develop by themselves, independently of man, microbes

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switch from human metabolites for a more luxurious menu of foods of the human diet, thereby avoiding interaction with the host organism; excessive nutrition of bacteria contributes to their rapid growth 70-75 thousand microparticles of plastic on average swallows each person for one year (staff of the University of Victoria, Canada). Microplastic-the remains of products, under the influence of the sun, air and water disintegrated into tiny fibers. Mass production of plastics began in the 1940s, and its pace is growing exponentially. Residents of the United States and other economically developed countries annually only drink 39-52 Transition to clay and glass ware of own production thousand microparticles of plastic, (the city of the Sun, p. Buddha in the Kharkiv not counting plastic particles region). inhaled from the air. It is assumed that toxic substances enter the body through plastic, and the smallest particles can enter the circulatory system, lymph nodes and reach the liver. At the same time Russia more buys plastic waste abroad in 2017 to $16.3 million in 2018 to $20.3 million But only for the first half, 2019, the year Russia increased its imports of plastic waste by 41% — is conducted transactions on USD 12.6 million. Cotton fields account for about 10% of all pesticides used in the world and about 25% of all insecticides. Chemicals in the cotton fields: the orthophosphate, Organic cotton-0.76% of the total, grown in 22 trifuralin, toxaphene, countries, among the leaders-Turkey, Syria, China, methamidophos highly toxic. USA, Egypt. As fertilizer – organic, to repel insects Cotton processing also uses used garlic, chili and soap, to remove weeds used chemicals that contaminate soil, hand weeding, cotton is harvested by hand. Crop air and surface water. 55% of the rotation is used: the first year the fields are sown world's cotton is grown from with cotton and peanuts or chickpeas, the second GMO seeds. When the fiber is year with vegetables, wheat and corn. Watering-drip, bleached, toxic by-products are right under the root. released into the environment. Firms: C&A has sold over 100 million garments According to the WWF world (2013) from organic cotton, Levi's has released a wildlife Fund, the production of collection of environmental jeans "Levi's Eco" one kilogram of raw materials (2008). takes from 7,000 to 29,000 liters of water – it is the excessive exploitation of water for cotton cultivation that has become the

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main cause of the disappearance of the Aral sea. The list of cities with the dirtiest atmosphere, published in July 2019 by Roshydromet and the Ministry of natural resources, included more than 20 cities of Russia, in which a total of 5.1 million people live and there are large industrial centers. The largest volume of emissions from stationary sources of pollution was recorded in Siberia (30.6% of the all-Russian index), the lowest volume — in the North Caucasus Federal district (0.9%). From mobile sources most emissions in the Central part of Russia (25.2%), the least — in the Caucasus and the far East. Cities with the most polluted air in 2018 Most eco-settlements are settlements with a are recognized: Norilsk, population of 50-100 people, with a lack of large- Novokuznetsk, Magnitogorsk, scale industry and a focus on small innovative Cherepovets, Abakan, Angarsk, enterprises (kibbutzim) and folk crafts (ancestral Barnaul, Bratsk, Zima, Irkutsk, estates). Iskitim, Krasnoyarsk, Kyzyl, Lesosibirsk, Minusinsk, Petrovsk- Zabaykal'skiy, Kostroma, Vologda, Ulan-Ude, Usolye- Sibirskoye, Cheremkhovo, Moscow, Chita, Novosibirsk. Iskitim and Abakan were included in this list for the first time in 2019. In addition, the list of cities with the most polluted soil included the settlements of Primorye, Novgorod region and St. Petersburg. The cities of Chelyabinsk and Kirov regions, as well as Sverdlovsk region, Krasnoyarsk region, Transbaikalia, North Ossetia are recognized as problematic.

Source: compiled by the author

Conclusions 1. The food problem in connection with the steady growth of the World's On the basis of existing agricultural trends it is population will only worsen, expressed possible to speak about high degree of in the need: probability to the middle of the XXI century scenario, A A.V. Chayanov on the decline of a) Increasing the quantity of food; cities and the growth of the size and influence of b) Food quality growth; rural communities of modern type-eco- c) Reduction of time and Finance for their settlements: production.

At the same time, the food problem, as rightly noted by the rector of Belgorod state

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