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DOI: 10.15507/2658-4123.035.202504.723-749

UDK 574:633/635

 

Assessment of Environmental Sustainability and Stability of Crop Production Technological Processes

 

Nozim I. Jabborov
Dr.Sci. (Eng.), Professor, Leading Researcher of the Department of Agroecology in Crop Production, Institute for Engineering and Environmental Problems in Agricultural Production branch of Federal Scientific Agroengineering Center VIM (3 Filtrovskoye Shosse, Tiarlevo, St. Petersburg 196625, Russian Federation), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8910-2625, Researcher ID: А-7780-2019, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Aleksandr V. Dobrinov
Cand.Sci. (Eng.), Associate Professor, Senior Researcher of the Department of Agroecology in Crop Production, Institute for Engineering and Environmental Problems in Agricultural Production branch of Federal Scientific Agroengineering Center VIM (3 Filtrovskoye Shosse, Tiarlevo, St. Petersburg 196625, Russian Federation), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3242-1235, Researcher ID: AAB-2078-2021, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Anatoliy P. Savelyev
Dr.Sci. (Eng.), Professor, Professor of the Chair of Life Safety, National Re- search Mordovia State University (68 Bolshevistskaya St., Saransk 430005, Russian Federation), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0361-0827, Researcher ID: LPQ-6601-2024, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

Abstract
Introduction. The increased anthropogenic impact of technological tools leads to a violation of the environmental sustainability and stability of crop production technological processes that has a negative effect on the existing agrarian landscape. Because of a significant number of single environmental indicators, the assessment of the environmental sustainability of technological processes is usually carried out without ranking their significance and without taking into account individual natural and climatic characteristics that significantly affect the agricultural production system. At the same time, there has not been developed a necessary approach for assessing the environmental sustainability with a high measure of reliability.
Aim of the Study. The study is aimed at justifying the criteria and proposing an assessment of the degree environmental sustainability and stability of technological processes in crop production.
Materials and Methods. The study was based on the use of analytical methods and the synthesis of scientific results obtained by various authors. There was employed statistic modeling of processes that made it possible to identify the patterns of these processes, determine and reasonably choose significant factors influencing the environmental sustainability and stability of the processes.
Results. There have been developed partial and integral criteria for assessing environmental sustainability and stability of crop production technological processes. There are given the examples of criteria calculation and the assessment of environmental sustainability and stability of the technological processes of transportation and application of liquid organic fertilizers to the soil. There has been substantiated the scale of assessment of technological processes based on the values of the integral evaluation criterion. According to the environmental sustainability degree, the authors propose to divide technological processes into stable, medium-stable, unstable and with high entropy.
Discussion and Conclusion. The authors proposed criteria for assessing environmental sustainability and stability in crop production technological processes, which can be used for developing mobile apps, platforms, and logistics solutions to improve industry efficiency, labor productivity, product quality, etc.

Keywords: crop production, technological processes, environmental sustainability, environmental stability, evaluation criteria

Conflict of interest: the authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.

For citation: Jabborov N.I., Dobrinov A.V., Savelyev A.P. Assessment of Environmental Sustainability and Stability of Crop Production Technological Processes. Engineering Technologies and Systems. 2025;35(4):723–749. https://doi.org/10.15507/2658-4123.035.202504.723-749

Authors contribution:
N. I. Dzhabborov – control, leadership and mentoring in the process of planning and conducting the study; formulating the study ideas, goals and objectives, applying the statistical, mathematical, computational and other formal methods for the analysis of the study data.
A. V. Dobrinov – conducting experiments and collecting data, preparing the manuscript: writing a manuscript draft, including its translation into the English language.
A. P. Savelyev ‒ conducting the study, preparing the manuscript: visualizing the study results and the data obtained.

All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.

Submitted 30.06.2025;
revised 02.08.2025;
accepted 16.08.2025

 

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