Land potential of Non-chernozem region, its use and influence on the quality of life in rural areas

Abstract

The article provides a brief analysis of certain norms of the Russian land legislation in the field of protection and use of land resources for the agricultural production. The authors underline the importance of land management in the organization of work aimed at preserving and protection soil fertility and environment. The main subjects, entrusted with powers to carry out activities on soil fertility preservation have been identified in this paper. It was found that the state actually freed the owners of land plots, land users, landowners and tenants of agricultural lands from the need to finance the measures for the reproduction of land fertility that was an integral part of agricultural technologies in the past. So, since the mid-90s, land management as an institution of development doesn’t exist in Russia anymore. As a result, the removal of nitrogen by crops from the soil exceeded its input with organic and mineral fertilizers, provoking the decrease in soil fertility. The characteristics of the labor and land potential of the subjects of the Russian Federation that are part of the Non-Chernozem Economic Zone of the country are considered in this article.