With the help of state support, agricultural enterprises of the Khabarovsk Territory will put into circulation abandoned agricultural land on an area of more than 2,3 thousand hectares this year, TASS reports. Vyacheslav Fedorov, head of the department of investment development and melioration of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Territory, told about this.
“For 2022, 2 land reclamation projects with a total area of 2,34 thousand hectares were selected by the Russian Ministry of Agriculture,” Fedorov said, adding that the project for the construction of an reclamation drainage system in the Lazo area on an area of 1,04 thousand hectares and the project cultural and technical events on an area of 1,3 thousand hectares. The size of the subsidy from the federal budget for this year amounted to 84 million rubles.
Last year, state support for the introduction of unused farmland into circulation was provided to three entrepreneurs, the source added. They received a total of 36,2 million rubles, of which 2,8 million rubles were from the federal budget, and 85% of the expenses were reimbursed. Land on 1019,43 hectares was brought into circulation, abandoned fields were cleared of trees and shrubs, stumps and moss, and primary soil cultivation was carried out.
“The main problem of increasing the area suitable for growing crops is the high cost of restoring and putting agricultural land into circulation through cultural and technical measures and the construction of new or reconstruction of existing reclamation systems. The mechanism provided for by the state program for the effective involvement of agricultural land in the circulation and the development of the reclamation complex of the Russian Federation is used in the region, but does not allow increasing the sown area in the required amount - up to 85 thousand hectares, ”Fyodorov said.
The regional authorities set the task of increasing the sown area of agricultural land involved in the turnover by at least 30 thousand hectares by 2030, including by at least 20 thousand hectares by 2026. The regional Ministry of Agriculture, Fedorov specified, has developed a roadmap for the Far Eastern Agricultural Park of the Khabarovsk Territory project. It is planned to prepare a feasibility study for the placement of land reclamation facilities and develop project documentation for the construction of new land reclamation systems on an area of about 10 thousand hectares.