The problem of non-use of agricultural land, especially in the context of a reduction in productive land (by 6 million hectares of arable land since 2005), is of strategic importance for food security and economic development of the country. The article analyzes the dynamics of agricultural land use by year and identifies the causes of land disuse. The authors present a classification of unused farmland, which simultaneously takes into account soil quality indicators and the reasons for non-use (legal, spatial, economic, environmental). According to the qualitative indicators that determine their suitability for use in agriculture, 6 classes are distinguished from agricultural land: suitable for use in crop production, potentially suitable for use in crop production, suitable for use for the placement of natural forage lands, conditionally suitable for use in agriculture, unsuitable for use in agriculture, unsuitable for for use in agriculture for the production of crop products. This classification makes it possible not only to assess the potential of the site, but also to identify specific mechanisms for its involvement in the turnover – from priority development to conservation or transfer to another category. The authors have made proposals on the directions and main content of government measures to involve unused lands in active economic turnover with recommendations on comprehensive cadastral registration of all unused plots by analogy with complex cadastral works using remote sensing data and departmental information systems, which can significantly reduce the financial and time costs of municipalities.
Semochkin et al. (Mon,) studied this question.