Current State and Development Trends in Agricultural Land Use in the Central Chernozem Region

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10.2991/aebmr.k.200729.011How to use a DOI?

Keywords

agricultural lands, farmlands, chernozem soils, plough disturbance of farmlands, land degradation, concentration of lands

Abstract

The paper considers the situation with the use of lands in the Central Chernozem Region (CChR) developed over the years of reforms. The data is provided on the availability of agricultural lands in the CChR, as well as the place and role of the CChR in the production of agricultural products in Russia. The soils in the region are represented by typical, ordinary, leached, and other subtypes of chernozem that occupy 84.3 % of the arable land area. However, at present chernozem soils of the CChR are undergoing degradation processes. It is established that the share of lands used for agricultural purposes in the total land fund of the CChR has reached 79.6 %, which is significantly higher than the levels in the Russian Federation and the Central Federal District (12.3 and 51.6 %, respectively). Given the emerging trend of increasing the area of agricultural lands, there is a decrease in the area of farmlands. In recent years the CChR, like all other regions of Russia, has been characterized by a trend towards redistributing the land owned by private persons to the ownership of legal entities and to state and municipal property. But in contrast to other regions of Russia, no substantial withdrawal of agricultural lands from economic turnover is observed in the CChR. There has been a significant increase in the concentration of land resources in all categories of farming units both in the Russian Federation as a whole, and in the Central Federal District and the Central Chernozem Region.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - N.I. Bukhtoiarov
AU  - S.N. Volkov
AU  - G.N. Nikonova
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/07/30
TI  - Current State and Development Trends in Agricultural Land Use in the Central Chernozem Region
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Policies and Economics Measures for Agricultural Development (AgroDevEco 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 54
EP  - 59
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.200729.011
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.200729.011
ID  - Bukhtoiarov2020
ER  -