Development of Land Relations in the Agroindustrial Complex

Abstract

This article is devoted to the results and consequences of land and agrarian reforms in Russia and to defining the main guidelines for improvement of land policy. The dynamics of the ownership structure, ratio of management forms, and structure of land use of agricultural organizations indicate the incompleteness of land transformations. Assessment of the modern public land policy indicates its uncertainty as regards a number of critical positions and the inadequacy of the land management system concerning the requirements of the country’s socioeconomic development. Its inefficiency has led to a lack of information on the composition and quality of land potential, accelerating degradation of agricultural land, criminalization of land relations, insecurity of small agribusiness, unprecedented growth of latifundia, and other negative trends.

The proportion of agricultural land areas involved in cadastral registration is a little more than 20%, and the boundaries of administrative-territorial units have not been established, which gives rise to many land disputes and nonobservance of the rights of agricultural producers. The destruction of institutions for forecasting and planning the use and protection of land, land management, monitoring, detailed design for land improvement, and anti-erosion organization of the territory have led to desertification of large areas, development of water and wind erosion, soil salinization, and other negative processes. The implementation of a system of urgent measures is proposed to improve the current situation.