Digital technologies for the survey of the state of agricultural land

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Agricultural land is a strategic resource that ensures the food security of the population. They act as the main means of production in agriculture, have a special legal regime, and are subject to special protection aimed at preserving their area, preventing the development of negative soil processes, and increasing soil fertility. The irrational and inappropriate use of agricultural land leads to its degradation, which consists in the loss of fertility, overgrowth, contamination, and the appearance of other negative consequences that negatively affect the possibility of obtaining agricultural products. The functioning of all branches of agriculture and the economy as a whole depends on the rational use of land resources, so the most important task of the state land administration is the organization of land monitoring. The Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation has developed a departmental project “Digital Agriculture” with an implementation period of 2019-2024, the main goal of which is to introduce digital technologies and platform solutions that provide a technological breakthrough in the agro-industrial complex and achieve a 2-fold increase in labor productivity at “digital” agricultural enterprises by 2024. Within the framework of this project, it is planned to form a common system of accounting for agricultural land. It can be used to track which part of the land is used, and which is empty.