Analysis of territorial differentiation of agricultural potential of municipal districts of the Republic of Mordovia

The analysis of the spatial organization of the regional land use system is included in the list of the most important management tasks to ensure sustainable eco-logical-socio-economic development of territories. This task is valid for all levels of organization of the relationship between nature and society. The article is devoted to the actual problem of analyzing the territorial differentiation of the agricultural potential of the Re-public of Mordovia. This analysis is carried out at the level of municipal districts of the region. It is a key indicator of the effectiveness of agricultural development of the region's landscapes. The authors used data from official statistics, regional agrochemical surveys, in-formation from state land accounting and statistical reporting on state land supervision, databases and electronic maps of the regional geographical information system «Mordovia». The article estimates of the agricultural potential of the municipal districts of the Republic of Mordovia based on the calculation of integral indices. All private indicators are combined into the indices «Potential of soil fertility», «Efficiency of agricultural land use» and «Intensification of agricultural land use». The authors revealed the dependence of the integral and particular parameters of agricultural land use efficiency on various indicators based on correlation analysis. The results of the research shows that the effectiveness of agricultural land use depends on the soil fertility of arable land, the agricultural potential of the municipal districts of the Republic of Mordovia significantly depends on the differentiation of landscape conditions.