Regional features of especially productive agricultural land allocation

Abstract

One of the urgent issues of modern land matters in the Russian Federation is the allocation of especially valuable productive agricultural lands. This process is aimed at lands’ protection and efficient use and is regulated by the legislation of the Russian Federation. Regional legislation is in charge of the lands’ selection and itemizing. The article presents the results on assessing the dynamics of the allocation of especially valuable productive agricultural lands in the regions of the country and establishes the features of itemizing especially valuable productive agricultural lands. The evaluation criterion for classifying land plots as especially valuable in the regions is mainly the deviation of the cadastral value from the average district values for the municipality, which does not appropriately reflect the land fertility. The use of soil fertility coefficient, grain coefficient, bonitet score for classifying agricultural lands according to suitability for use in agriculture is justified. Analysis of the registers of especially valuable lands in the constituent entities revealed a variety of information on a land plot classified as a particularly valuable agricultural land. Measures for the allocation of valuable land should be based on land management, which includes a set of measures for lands assessment, classification, territory zoning and establishment of land boundaries. Registers of especially valuable productive agricultural land should have a unified pattern with a maximum of information about the land plot: its location, permitted use, area, basis for inclusion in the register, date, name of the farm and municipality, etc.