Efficiency of Land Use in the Agrarian Sector in Yaroslavl Region
The use of agricultural land in the agrarian sector of the economy in the region is characterized by the low level of intensity, falling land plots into disuse that results in lowering the efficiency of the land use. Since 1990 till 2015 the area of agricultural land had decreased up to 168,8 thousand hectares or up to 14,7% including arable land - up to 88,6 thousand hectares (10,9%). Redistribution of agricultural land among land users of different forms of farming is taking place; the share of land used for agricultural production by farm organizations has sharply decreased. The high level of plowed agricultural land in all categories of farms is due to the specialization of production in animal husbandry and the necessity to form the feeding base primarily due to the use of arable land. A low level of intensity of the use of arable lands in the period studied is marked in all categories of farms, the share of crops in arable land decreased from 46,3% in 2010 till 43,5% in 2015. To increase the efficiency of land use in the system of state regulation measures a separate support of plant growing for farms has been offered. But these measures are not sufficient and it is necessary to strengthen monitoring the land use in the agrarian sector of economy, to improve the legal base for increasing the responsibility of land users for the rational use and protection of land, to increase support of plant growing for agricultural producers, thus to combine its level with the rate of efficiency of using arable land.