Efficient land use as a factor in sustainable agricultural development

Issue № 8, 2025, article № 5, pages 43-51

Section: Economic mechanism of managing

Language: Russian

Original language title: ЭФФЕКТИВНОЕ ЗЕМЛЕПОЛЬЗОВАНИЕ КАК ФАКТОР УСТОЙЧИВОГО РАЗВИТИЯ СЕЛЬСКОГО ХОЗЯЙСТВА

Keywords: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, LAND USE, EFFICIENCY, AGRICULTURE, SCALE EFFECT, LAND LEASE

Abstract: The study has proven that efficient land use, the most important characteristic of which is an increase in the return on land resource potential and an increase in the profitability of land users, is a factor in the sustainable development of agriculture, as it allows the long-term economic growth in the industry without harming the environment and contributes to improving the quality of life of the population. It has been substantiated that the profitability of agricultural production is influenced by the size of land use. The use of the method of economic-statistical groupings and correlation-regression analysis made it possible to assess the impact of the area of agricultural land use on the indicators of land use efficiency, to identify the relationship between the essential features of the studied set of statistical observations and to prove the presence of a scale effect. It was found that the indicators of the economic efficiency of production activities in crop production of land users in the Northern and Central agricultural zones of the Krasnodar Territory increased as the area of agricultural land of organizations increased. Thus, in the group of land users with an agricultural land area of up to 3,000 hectares in both the Northern and Central zones, the lowest gross profit per hectare was obtained, which increased as the land area grew. In the group of organizations with an area of over 9,000 hectares, the gross profit per 1 hectare of agricultural land amounted to 36.8 and 33.3 thousand rubles, respectively, in the Northern and Central zones, which is 2.1 and 1.1 times more than in the group of farms with an area of less than 3,000 hectares. The profitability of crop production had the same growth patterns and amounted to 86.5% and 70.9%, respectively, in farms with an area of over 9,000 hectares. It has been proven that sustainable development of land use and agriculture can be achieved by achieving the optimal size of crop land. It has been established that ensuring sustainable development of agriculture is possible on the basis of the optimal size of arable land and agricultural land use, which can be achieved through the implementation of a mechanism for leasing land from the redistribution fund of municipalities.

Authors: Artemova Elena Igorevna, Barsukova Galina Nikolaevna, Liagoskina Natalia Rafailovna