In three years, at least 100 thousand hectares of abandoned land will be introduced into agricultural circulation in Kuzbass

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 thousand ha). This year it is planned to introduce 40 thousand hectares. The governor has set a task - to return another 100 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 of unused lands, the ownership of which is not delimited, was carried out in order to survey them and further provide them for use. Passports of agricultural lands were compiled, which included all lands in the context of land users and types of ownership.
The largest areas of land to be returned to agricultural circulation are located in the Tyazhinskiy, Yashkinskiy, Mariinsky, Belovsky, Izhmorsky districts. The Ministry of Agriculture of Kuzbass has prepared a plan for the processing of unused areas until 2026.