EVOLUTION OF THE SCIENTIFIC-ORGANIZATIONAL FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIC FARMING IN UKRAINE: HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE INDEPENDENCE PERIOD

Abstract

INTRODUCTION The historiography of the evolution of the scientific-organizational foundations of organic farming has a long tradition. Due to the development of thinking and the latest scientific approaches, historical works on the problem of research are divided in chronological principle into two groups. The first of these includes scientific publications published in the Soviet era, and the second – during the independence of Ukraine 1 . They differ in principled approaches, ideological content, provisions and conclusions, since researchers of the history of agrarian science worked in different socio-economic and socio-political conditions of certain historical periods. An independent period in historiography began in independent Ukraine in search of new conceptual approaches to the historical knowledge of world and regional alternative measures 2 . Historiography has begun to play the role of an integration factor, maintaining an appropriate level of knowledge regarding the development of environmentally friendly technologies in Ukraine 3 .