Within three years, at least 100 hectares of abandoned land will be put into agricultural circulation in Kuzbass, the press service of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture reports.
Work on putting abandoned land into circulation in the region has been actively carried out since 2018. In four years, 83,5 thousand hectares of land were returned to agricultural circulation (2018 - 9,9 thousand hectares, 2019 - 12,3 thousand hectares, 2020 - 20,6 thousand hectares, 2021 - 40,7 .40 thousand ha). This year it is planned to introduce 100 thousand hectares. The governor has set a task - to return another XNUMX thousand hectares of arable land over the next three years.
The introduction of abandoned lands into agricultural circulation is a strategic task for the development of agriculture in Kuzbass. In the new economic realities, the harvest from each additional hectare of land is a contribution to the food security of the region. “It is important for us to use agricultural land as efficiently as possible, to assist farmers in the modernization of production in order to form their own food and seed reserves in the region,” Governor Sergei Tsivilev emphasized.
The Ministry of Agriculture of Kuzbass noted that plans for the introduction of land for each rural municipality are formed individually based on the results of field meetings that took place in the winter under the leadership of the Deputy Chairman of the Government of Kuzbass for Agro-Industrial Complex Denis Ilyin.
Representatives of committees for the management of state and municipal property, heads of agricultural enterprises and farmers take part in the work. In each municipality, an analysis was made of unused lands, the ownership of which is not demarcated, with the aim of their land surveying and further provision for use. Passports of agricultural lands were compiled, which included all lands in the context of land users and types of ownership. The Ministry of Agriculture of Kuzbass has prepared a plan for the processing of unused areas until 2026.