Scientific and methodological approach in the assessment of agricultural production due to the use of old-haft lands

Issue № 9, 2019, article № 7, pages 63-72

Language: Russian

Original language title: НАУЧНО - МЕТОДИЧЕСКИЙ ПОДХОД В ОЦЕНКЕ ПРОИЗВОДСТВА СЕЛЬСКОХОЗЯЙСТВЕННОЙ ПРОДУКЦИИ ЗА СЧЕТ ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЯ СТАРОПАХОТНЫХ ЗЕМЕЛЬ

Keywords: PRODUCTION POTENTIAL IN AGRICULTURE, THE MOST VALUABLE AGRICULTURAL LAND, INVOLVEMENT OF UNUSED AGRICULTURAL LAND INTO AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION

Abstract: To forecast midterm possibilities of increasing agricultural production due to the involvement of unused arable land in agricultural production, authors studied changes in the volume of land resources involved in this production from 1990 to 2017. Special attention was paid to regional aspects. To determine the potential increase in agricultural production, the usability indicators for land use in agriculture were taken as the basis. As a result, assumptions were made about the possible directions of the development of agricultural land use at the regional level with the implementation of the extensive method of farming throughout the country and the involvement of unused arable land into agricultural production with the current intensity of agricultural technologies. The calculations show that in general in the Russian Federation, the use of the available land potential through the involvement of old arable lands in agricultural production, preserving the current ratio of the crop and livestock industries, the structure of cultivated areas and the level of management, may increase agricultural production by 30‰. In regions with favourable agro-climatic conditions, growth might be up to 12‰. In regions with low agro-climatic potential and located far from large markets for agricultural products, agricultural production can be increased many fold, 2-3 times or more. A group of regions with 30‰ or more of the highly productive lands of the first and second class has the potential to increase the production of crop and livestock by 35-55‰. Moreover, regions with a large proportion of valuable productive lands of 1-4 classes are able to increase production by 30-80‰.

Authors: Polunin Gennadii Andreevich, Alakoz Valerii Vladimirovich, CHerkashin Kirill Igorevich