514,000 Hectares of Arable Land Returned to Circulation in the Volgograd Region
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In the Volgograd region, 514,000 hectares of arable land have been returned to circulation. This was reported by the press service of the regional administration.
The land was abandoned over the past decades and overgrown with trees and shrubs.
The work on the return of abandoned land to circulation is carried out within the framework of the federal project "Development of Rural Areas" of the national project "Ecology".
The work on the development of abandoned land is carried out in several stages:
- identification of abandoned land;
- land surveying;
- clearing the territory from trees and shrubs;
- soil cultivation;
- sowing of agricultural crops.
In 2022, work was carried out on an area of 102 thousand hectares, of which 80 thousand hectares were sown with agricultural crops.
In 2023, it is planned to return to circulation about 120 thousand hectares of abandoned land.
The return of abandoned land to circulation will allow increasing the production of agricultural products, creating new jobs and improving the environmental situation in the region.
