The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food has developed a draft national program for the use and protection of land until 2032.

As noted in the national program for the use and protection of land until 2032, its participants and stakeholders are:

• Ministry of Agrarian Policy;

• State Geocadastre;

• Minenvironment;

• State Environmental Inspection;

• state administrations;

• NAS, NAON;

• local government bodies, landowners, land users, land management organizations, public associations.

 According to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, currently 75% of all Ukrainian lands are used. Agriculture accounts for 71%. The plowing rate is 54%.

The land intensity of the main sectors of the Ukrainian economy is 2.5-2.7 times higher than in developed countries. At the same time, 2.4 million hectares of land are occupied by water bodies and are not used effectively enough.

There is a problem of soil contamination with radionuclides, heavy metals, pesticides, pathogens of infectious diseases.

Minagro estimates the damage from the main types of soil degradation of Ukrainian lands at UAH 40-50 billion! Including UAH 23-28 billion - from unbalanced losses of humus and nutrients, and UAH 17-22 billion - from a shortage of products and soil losses due to erosion.

Minagro named the key reasons for this state of the soil:

• Lack of scientifically grounded crop rotations;

• Soil protection technologies for growing agricultural crops;

• the scientifically grounded ratio between the application of organic and mineral fertilizers has been violated;

• Dominance of land lease as a form of use (as a result - a decrease in the incentive to invest in land quality);

• lack of a unified state system of land protection;

• Insufficiently developed land management regulations;

• The overwhelming majority of state standards and classifiers in the field of protection and rational use of natural resources are not consistent with the current legislation;

• There are no standards for land reclamation, mechanical and other types of loads on the land;

 The program consists of the following elements:

• Development of land management schemes and feasibility studies, use and protection of lands of administrative-territorial units

• Monitoring of land and soil quality with the creation of a geographic information platform

• Prevention of unjustified seizure of agricultural land for non-agricultural needs

• Protection of lands from harmful anthropogenic impact, reproduction and improvement of soil fertility, increasing the productivity of forest lands, compliance with a special regime for the use of protected lands.

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