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The search for the rational use of fertile irrigated land in the steppe zone of Central Ciscaucasia and the determination of factors for the sustainable production of crop products, provided that soil fertility is maintained, remained as valid today as ever. The relevance of research is also increasing due to changes in climatic characteristics in specific agro-landscape conditions, including, an increase in average daily and annual air temperatures by 2 - 50С. The novelty of research is the establishment of the most efficient fertilization systems in dryland and irrigated conditions to increase winter wheat yields, to increase the productivity of 1 ha of crop area, as well as to maintain and reproduce soil fertility and to increase the productivity of irrigated crop rotation. The article contains the research results on the use of different fertilization systems and their influence on winter wheat yields and crop rotation productivity in dryland and irrigated agriculture on ordinary carbonate chernozems in specific agro-landscape, soil and climatic characteristics of the Central Ciscaucasia.