КРИТИЧЕСКИЙ АНАЛИЗ ПОДХОДОВ ВОВЛЕЧЕНИЯ НЕИСПОЛЬЗУЕМЫХ ЗЕМЕЛЬ В СЕЛЬСКОХОЗЯЙСТВЕННЫЙ ОБОРОТ

Abstract

The lack of market for farming lands and dynamics of their area growth is a process which should be considered in terms of the need to involve them in the farming business. Taking into account the current situation in Russia, one of the ways of addressing the issue of country’s food security and food import substitution is the introduction of unclaimed farming lands into the farming business. By 2030, the Ministry of Agriculture plans to involve 13 million hectares of farming lands in the farming business. This article identifies causes of appearance and growth of such unclaimed lands. Available economic approaches to addressing the issue of their reduction are considered. The study of the state and use of farming lands shows the scale of the problem of abandoned farming lands in Russia. Despite measures aimed at introducing unclaimed farming lands into the farming business, the area of abandoned farming lands did not decrease between 2017 and 2020. We propose to address problems with unclaimed farming lands by using the synthesis of market and governmental instruments in the context of governmental programs for reclamation of unclaimed lands, the market law of derived demand, and theory of effective demand. At the same time, it is necessary to place special emphasis on boosting the demand for farm products as the main approach to increasing the area of abandoned farming lands introduced into the farming business. The ultimate goal of the study, one of the stages of which are proposals presented in the article, is to validate approaches and measures aimed at introducing farming lands into the farming business.