Russia to Boost Farmland by 5M Hectares by 2030
Russia plans to increase agricultural sown areas by at least 5 million hectares by 2030, using municipal land monitoring, digital systems, and the 'Land for Farmer' service to bring unused land into production.
Consensus
- Russia plans to increase sown agricultural areas by at least 5 million hectares by 2130.
- The plan is already formulated in 51 federal subjects.
- The main tools for working with private agricultural land are municipal land monitoring and digital systems.
- In the first half of the year, regions surveyed twice as much land as in the same period last year.
- The 'Land for Farmer' service, created by Minсельхоз and Rosreestr, is available on the National Spatial Data System portal.
- The service currently lists 1.2 million hectares of free land parcels.
- About 83,000 people used the service in the current year.
- 2.5 million hectares of previously unaccounted land have been placed on state cadastre, with 67% leased.
- An additional 650,000 hectares are planned to be registered this year.
- All inventory and land inclusion work in 2026 is conducted in the Unified Federal State Information System for Agricultural Land.
- Digitalization has reduced information processing time from three to one month.
Points of divergence
- Ministry of Agriculture held a meeting with regional agricultural authorities, led by Minister Oksana Lut, to discuss involving unused agricultural land into circulation. — vedomosti
- The harvest campaign is currently underway in 25 regions, but is lagging behind by about 2.5 million hectares in area coverage. — vedomosti
Coverage (2 sources)
- By 2030 Russia plans to increase sown area by 5 million hectares — Ведомости
- The sown area in the Russian Federation is planned to be increased by no less than 5 million hectares by 2030 — Интерфакс
Key entities
- Russia
- Ministry of Agriculture and Food
- Oksana Lut
- Moscow
- INTERFAX.RU
- Tverskaya
- Saratov Oblast
- APK
- Chelyabinsk
- Sowing Area