title: Cultivation of agricultural crops using direct seeding technology in the extremely arid zone of the Stavropol Territory
abstract: Abstract. Of the 245.7 thousand hectares cultivated in the Stavropol Territory using direct sowing technology, 66.5 % are in the arid zone, while this technology is not used in the extremely arid zone. The purpose of the work is to establish the possibility and effectiveness of cultivating crops without tillage in the extremely arid zone of the Stavropol Territory. Methods. In field trials conducted under the production conditions of Oktyab’rskiy CJSC of the Levokumskiy District, the objects of 
journal: Agrarian Bulletin of the