Priority tasks of improving the mechanism of rational land use in agriculture

One of the main goals of sustainable development in agriculture is to ensure rational land use, which is still not being achieved in Russia. This is evidenced by the progressive processes of land degradation and the continuing decline in soil fertility, which is largely due to the miscalculations of the state land management. The existing mechanism of land management is largely characterized by inconsistency and the absence of elements that ensure interest in a favorable ecological state of land. The result of this is the formation of a number of serious systemic problems that pose a threat to the very possibility of ensuring rational land use. These problems can be solved by expanding the parameters of state regulation of agriculture; forming a system of incentives for land users that would encourage rational use of land resources; ensuring proper state control over the reproduction of land fertility, as well as preventing their degradation. For this necessity is to improve the mechanism of agricultural land use management, the essence of which can be reduced to the formation of a system of legal means that ensures the harmonization of economic and environmental processes in land use. The authors have formulated a number of priority tasks that should be solved in the process of improving the mechanism of land use management.