Prospects for the expansion of acreage in the regions of Russia due to the introduction of unused arable land into circulation

Abstract

The problem of ensuring the country’s food security, which has recently become particularly acute, involves accelerating the search for reserves for the growth of agricultural production, one of such reserves is unused agricultural land. Therefore, in view of the strengthening of international sanctions against Russia and the adoption of a state program for the effective involvement of agricultural land in the turnover, the author’s approach to ranking regions according to the degree of prospects for large-scale expansion of acreage due to the introduction of unused arable land into circulation is proposed. Based on the results of calculations of resource and financial indicators of agricultural development in regions with large areas of unused arable land, an assessment of the potential of the regions was made on the possible level of efficiency of the use of arable land put into circulation, so that additional measures of financial and organizational support for these regions had the maximum level of return in the form of high growth rates of gross agricultural output. The article emphasizes that agriculture in only 22 regions has sufficient conditions and opportunities for effective development after large-scale involvement in the turnover of unused arable land, but subject to mandatory state support, without which it is impossible to bring individual economic and production indicators of the agricultural sector of individual regions to an acceptable level.