PROBLEMS OF THE USE OF AGRICULTURAL LANDS OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD AREA
His article discusses the main problems of irrational use of agricultural land. Among them: problems of preserving the land and resource potential of agriculture - soil degradation, deterioration of soil condition, reduction of soil fertility; as well as the reduction of the area of agricultural land. The problem of rational and competent use of agricultural land has been present at all times. During the Soviet Union, there was a certain imbalance with he plowing of certain territories and their inefficient use. The plowing area was constantly increasing, but due to certain circumstances, these areas were not used very effectively. The technologies were mostly extensive. Today, on the contrary, producers mainly use over-intensive technologies and in the pursuit of profit, there is a division of land into promising and unpromising areas. The dynamics of changes in the structure of the land fund and the land area of the redistribution fund from 2015 to 2019 are studied. Thus, in the presence of modern energy-intensive equipment, low-yielding land is often eliminated from crop rotations of farms. This trend has a negative impact on the economy of the region and the state as a whole, as this situation is typical for most of the territories of Russia