The approaches to the justification of the distribution of crops in the structure of fields and production volumes for mechanized technological operations, as part of the structural-logical scheme of the development of a mechanized technological process, are considered. The algorithm for placing agricultural crops on fields is justified; it has three options for solving depending on the task in the farm: agricultural crops and their cultivation areas do not change and fields with their areas also do not change; agricultural crops do not change, and their cultivation areas change, fields with their areas do not change; agricultural crops and their areas are changing, fields with their areas are not changing. Indicators are determined and their influence on each component of the process of selecting areas for growing planned agricultural crops from the field matrix using existing fields or their parts is studied, according to the matrix, the ratio of crops to ensure the planned volume of production
agriculture, field, technological operation, growing conditions, quality indicators