Agriculture & Food, Volume 2, 2014

Abstract: The characteristics and stages of development of agricultural production in the semidesert and dry steppe regions of Russia and Kazakhstan over a century of development of the social system are described. It has been shown that government subsidies into outdated agricultural technology with uncontrolled increase of population density is a dead-end. The necessity of compliance with human and biological resources using innovative agricultural technologies with adaptive ways of management of natural resources in arid regions has been shown.