Unused agricultural land: problems and solutions

Abstract

Abstract Unused agricultural land is one of the modern problems of land relations in Russia. According to the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia, its area is more than 40 million hectares. Identification of unused lands, their composition, area, territorial distribution and properties helps identify causes of their non-use which can be systematized in the following groups: economic, environmental, legal, spatial (remoteness, low profile, strip), organizational and economic (land shares, land redistribution fund). An analysis of causes of non-use allows us to solve this problem: improving the legislation and the land management system, taxation of rural producers, land management for the territorial development of agricultural production, technological equipment for development processes.