Annotation

The article analyzes the state of land use and protection since the territorial communities formation and transfer of the state-owned agricultural land, and reveals modern approaches to sustainable development, improving the rational use and protection of agricultural land from degradation. An emphasis is made on the need to settle the procedure of land use, payment of taxes by all land users and the elimination of shadow farming.

In order to establish effective and efficient cooperation between economic entities on the rational use of land as a necessary prerequisite for sustainable development in the natural resource sphere, there is a need to improve land relations and system land management, approaches to land management considering opening of the agricultural land market and using the experience of developed European countries.

The main task of land management is the transition from the land organization of «land reform» to the land surveying works on the territory of new-established territorial communities that will serve the land and property relations in the post-reform period. To do this, the state should initiate new approaches and management conditions for landowners and users. First of all, it is necessary to use a scientifically substantiated approach to the organization of land use, as well as to address the issue of agricultural loans, affordable leasing of equipment and agricultural equipment, and so on.

To prevent the vulnerability of agricultural production from natural and climatic conditions and its adaptation to these conditions, it is necessary to develop a comprehensive system of land management measures, which should be a part of the land management project. It is recommended for territorial communities to develop zoning projects or land management projects for the organization of rational use and protection of land. At the legislative level, it is required to establish a provision according to which land users will be deprived of the right to use land for non-compliance with the requirements of preservation and restoration of environmental quality and especially the agricultural land quality.