ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY OF APPLYING MEASURES FOR REDUCTION OF SOIL DEPLETION IN RUSSIAN AGRICULTURAL LAND USE

The current state of Russian land use is characterized by heterogeneity, instability and uncertainty of further development. Its efficiency is affected by the processes of cover destruction, waterlogging, salinization, and desertification. Fertility especially intensely decreases on old-arable lands and under monoculture cultivation. Effective agricultural land management is required and that involves the use of effective administrative and economic tools. The methods of cost optimization described by the process model are recommended, including the classification of costs. identification of ways to reduce them, introduction of a correction factor for determining the amounts of land payments, differentiation of responsibility for the implementation of mandatory measures, and differentiation of the amount of monetary penalties in accordance with the behavior of subjects in land relations. The practical value of the work is that its results contribute to improving the efficiency of agricultural land use in terms of its economic justification, environmental and social adaptation.