According to the plowing of agricultural land, which is 80%, Chuvashia ranks 1st in the Volga Federal District and 6th in Russia. The Head of Chuvashia Oleg Nikolaev spoke about this in his speech with a report on the activities of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic for 2021, the press service of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Chuvash Republic reports.
«We continue the inventory of agricultural land to identify unaccounted for various reasons plots and their subsequent introduction into circulation", - said Nikolaev.
«Increasing the efficiency of the use of agricultural land, increasing the area under crops and maximizing the involvement of unused land in the turnover are relevant tasks for the agrarians of the republicand,” said Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Agriculture of the Chuvash Republic Sergei Artamonov, commenting on the report of the head.
Since 2016, according to the minister, 108,5 thousand hectares of unused agricultural land have been put into circulation. And the plan for the input of uncultivated land in 2021 was overfulfilled by 68%, 11,7 thousand hectares were actually introduced, 7 thousand hectares were planned. "Today, 17,3 thousand hectares of uncultivated land or 1,6% of the total area of arable land remain in the republic, in Russia this figure is 16,6%, in the Volga Federal District - 14,8%", the minister stressed.