III. at the late twentieth century, the scientific and empirical paradigm in the industry in question began to
change. In particular, people started to understand that population growth requires increase in the intensity
of agricultural production, but the reserves of intensification of the traditional methods had been exhausted.
Excessive intensification of agro-industrial production on the global level in the previous periods disturbed
the ecological balance; the use of various chemicals to stimulate growth of agricultural raw materials and to
protect from pests exhausted the land and water resources.
Thus, to date the issues of consumer quality of manufactured products in the agricultural sector are acute, but at
the same time, along with ensuring the quality of production, there are the acute problems of ecological safety of
production. For example, at the late twentieth century, a very negative trend of insufficient water resources for
agricultural purposes took place in many regions of the world. There has begun shallowing of medium and large
rivers in such industrialized countries and countries with transition economy such as: the USA, China, India, the
European Union, and the Russian Federation (Water Quality and Agriculture, 2012).