Methods of territory distribution zoning
The author recommends to use the territory zoning as a planning method to ensure the rational use of land resources. The proposed territory distribution zoningwithin the complex socio-economic zoning of the territory should be carried out in two stages: the territory zoning of the Russian Federation subject on the preferential target use of land resources and on the efficiency of using productive potential in the agricultural sector. The article briefly discusses the algorithm and author 's developments on automation for the first stage of territory zoning.The article reflects also its results, which served as the basis for the second stage of zoning. The publication focuses on a detailed description of the proposed methodology for the territory zoning on the efficiency of using productive potential in a particular sector of the economy. The mathematical basis of the second stage was the author 's improved taxonomic analysis. The proposed methodology was tested on the Krasnodar region's materials.