Private ownership of land and rental agricultural land use

Abstract

The article discusses issues of private property and rent of agricultural land use. Land policy in the field of agricultural land use in the post-reform period of the transition from the state and collective ownership of land to more individualized and sensitive structure of land ownership is not realized, the state "did not leave the land" and continues to rent unjustifiably large areas of productive agricultural land for short-term period of 3-5 years, provoking their depleting use, vicious practice of unwise consumption, encourages the excessive concentration of agricultural land for individuals to displace small and medium-sized agricultural business from agricultural production. It also attracts land speculators buying up agricultural land and creating the deficit in abundance; they are re-lease lands at a ten-fold rental payment, appropriating land rent owned by municipalities (rent in the regions of the Central Black Earth Economic Region exceeds the land tax calculated at an unreasonably underestimated tax rate of 0.3% by 60 times). The present-time land policy should focus on existing problems to ensure free access to land, protect the rights of land ownership, develop the land market, ensure environmental sustainability, and combat poverty. It is important to determine the current range of issues with which land policy must deal, highlight priority areas for improving it and organize the relevant activities of the state in the field of regulation of land relations.