http://www.fao.org/globalsoilpartnership/en/ This presentation was presented during the Eurasian Soil Partnership workshop that was held on 29 February - 02 March 2016 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

1. MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
BARRIERS PREVENTING SUSTAINABLE SOIL MANAGEMENTBARRIERS PREVENTING SUSTAINABLE SOIL MANAGEMENT
(SSM) APPLICATION AND RECOMMENDEDS SM PRACTICES IN(SSM) APPLICATION AND RECOMMENDEDS SM PRACTICES IN
THE RUSSIA FEDERATIONTHE RUSSIA FEDERATION

2. RUSSIA IN THE WORLD
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Far Eastern
Federal District
Siberian
Federal
District
Ural
Federal
District
Central
Federal
District
North
Western
Federal
District
Volga Federal
District
North
Caucasian
Federal
District
Southern
Federal
District
Crimean
Federal
District
CAPITAL Moscow
TOTAL AREA 17.125,407 sq. km
POPULATION 146.267,288 people
CURRENCY Russian Rouble
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE Russian
TIME ZONES from +3 to +12 (w/o +5)
RUSSIA STRETCHES ALMOST 10,000 km FROM WEST
TO EAST AND MORE THAN 4,000 km FROM NORTH TO
SOUTH.
North West Norway and Finland
West Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus South West Ukraine
South Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan
South East China, Mongolia, North Korea East (maritime border) USA, Japan
BORDERS OF RUSSIA
AREA OF
AGRICULTURAL LANDS
386, 500 sq. km

3. KEY GOALS OF THE STATE AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMKEY GOALS OF THE STATE AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
AND REGULATING MARKETS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS,AND REGULATING MARKETS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS,
RAW MATERIALS AND FOODS FORRAW MATERIALS AND FOODS FOR 2013 – 20202013 – 2020 PERIODPERIOD
Securing reliance on food products according to the indicators defined in the Food Security
Doctrine of the Russian Federation
Securing reliance on food products according to the indicators defined in the Food Security
Doctrine of the Russian Federation
Increasing the financial stability of the Agro-Industrial Complex enterprisesIncreasing the financial stability of the Agro-Industrial Complex enterprises
Sustainable rural developmentSustainable rural development
Securing epizootic safety on the territory of the Russian FederationSecuring epizootic safety on the territory of the Russian Federation
Restoration and efficient usage of land and other resources in agrarian production and
environment agrarian production
Restoration and efficient usage of land and other resources in agrarian production and
environment agrarian production
Accelerated import substitution of agricultural products on meat (pork, poultry, cattle), milk,
outdoor and greenhouse vegetables, seed potatoes, fruits and vegetables
Accelerated import substitution of agricultural products on meat (pork, poultry, cattle), milk,
outdoor and greenhouse vegetables, seed potatoes, fruits and vegetables
Ensuring sales of agricultural production, improvement of its marketability by creating
conditions for seasonal storage and processing
Ensuring sales of agricultural production, improvement of its marketability by creating
conditions for seasonal storage and processing
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4. STATE AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAM FOR 2013-2020 PERIOD
Financing
(RUR billion)
Financing
(RUR billion)KEY AREASKEY AREAS##
555,3555,3Development of crop production, processing and sales of crop productionDevelopment of crop production, processing and sales of crop production
346,4346,4Development of livestock production, processing and sales of livestock productionDevelopment of livestock production, processing and sales of livestock production
76,576,5Development of meat cattle breedingDevelopment of meat cattle breeding
114,3114,3Support of small farmsSupport of small farms
31,631,6
81,981,9
247,4247,4
Support of cattle breeding, seed breeding and seed productionSupport of cattle breeding, seed breeding and seed production 77,377,3
Technical and technological modernization, innovative developmentTechnical and technological modernization, innovative development
Development of amelioration of arable landsDevelopment of amelioration of arable lands
Development of diary cattle breedingDevelopment of diary cattle breeding
Development of wholesale distribution centers and social food system infrastructureDevelopment of wholesale distribution centers and social food system infrastructure
Development of the financial credit system of the Agro-Industrial ComplexDevelopment of the financial credit system of the Agro-Industrial Complex
Development of outdoor and greenhouse vegetable farming and seed potato productionDevelopment of outdoor and greenhouse vegetable farming and seed potato production
Sustainable rural development for 2014 - 2017 period and up to 2020 (Federal Target
Program)
Sustainable rural development for 2014 - 2017 period and up to 2020 (Federal Target
Program)
79,279,2
88,788,7
43,043,0
139,6139,6
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TOTALTOTAL 2,1262,126
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5. ADDITIONAL SUPPORT MEASURES
OF AGRAIAN PRODUCTION
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Wholesale distribution centers (creation)
Seed breeding and seed production centers
Fruit storages
Potato and vegetable storages
Greenhouse complexes
Diary cattle breeding complexes (diary farms)
The new product of state support – compensating agrarian producers for 20% of direct
costs for creation or modernization of the following facilities
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8. The state of lands used for agriculture purposes
in the Russian Federation
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The area of inspected agricultural lands is 8 879 million hectaresThe area of inspected agricultural lands is 8 879 million hectares
Identified negative
processes - 37%
3,259 million ha
Satisfactory state - 63%
5, 620 million ha

9. FEDERAL TARGET PROGRAM
«RECLAMATION OF AGRICULTURAL LANDS
IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION IN THE PERIOD OF 2014-2020”
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Total financing of the Program in 2014 – 2020: 185059,3 mln rubles, including:
- research and engineering work - 204,4 mln rubles;
- capital funds - 131850 mln rubles;
- others - 53004,9 mln rubles.
Financing at the expense of federal budget: 75297 mln rubles, including:
- research and engineering work - 82,7 mln rubles;
- capital funds - 47850 mln rubles;
- others - 27364 mln rubles.
Financing at the expense of regional and municipal budgets: 46001 ,9 mln rubles,
including:
- research and engineering work - 121,7 mln rubles;
- capital funds - 28000 mln rubles;
- others - 17880,2 mln rubles.
Financing at the expense of out-budget sources: 63760,4 mln rubles, including:
- capital funds - 56000 mln rubles;
- others - 7760,4 mln rubles.

10. ASSESSMENT OF SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, ECOLOGICAL EFFICIENCY
OF THE FEDERAL TARGET PROGRAM
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 From January 1, 2021 annual production of agricultural
products from the areas reclaimed within the realization
of the Program is expected to be not less 5160,7
thousand tons of fodder units
 Ensure crop productivity, independently on climatic
conditions, due to usage of 840,96 thousand hectares of
reclaimed lands
 Maintenance and establishment of 92,89 thousand new
hi-tech working places for agrarian producers due to
increasing of land productivity and involvement the new
arable lands into production turnover

11. Main directions to prevent land degradation
Main directionsMain directions
Ensuring
sustainable
use of
agricultural
lands and
improvement
of soil fertility
of agricultural
lands
Prevent
withdrawing of
agricultural lands
from agricultural
use
Involvement
in the
agricultural
use of
unused
agricultural
lands
Modernization,
rehabilitation,
reconstruction
and new
construction of
reclamation
systems and
separately located
hydraulic systems
Implementation
of innovative soil
protection
techniques and
plant
technologies
Protection and
preservation of
agricultural lands from
wind erosion and
desertification, from
water erosion, flooding
and underflooding, as
well as the
implementation of land
clearing measures
Recovering of
soil fertility and
other land
clearing
measures
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12. Main tasks on establishing the effective system of Sustainable Soil Management
in the Russian Federation
and the further extended recovering of soil fertility
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 Improvement of control and land monitoring system, usage of agrarian technologies,
technical assessment of amelioration systems, etc.
 Development of information and telecommunication system of agro-industrial complex in
the Russian Federation, establishing the system for the remote monitoring of
the agricultural lands
 Implementing the measures on involving the degrade agricultural lands in productive
turnover and their effective usage
 Providing the legal, methodic and administrative regulation of the measures on recovering
the soil fertility
 Development of unified conception and system of recovering the soil fertility with the aim
of saturating the service market of agricultural producers with accessible, widely adopted,
innovative technologies for recovering the erode and polluted lands
 Establishing and introduction in practice of land management the measures on increasing
the responsibility and concernment the agricultural producers to use the technologies on
preventing the land degradation and the further extended recovering of soil fertility

13. MEASURES ON INCRESING THE CONCERNMENT
OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS
IN APPLYING THE SYSTEM OF SUSTAINABLE SOIL MANAGEMENT
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 COSTS SUBSIDIZATION FOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS (up to 70%) for applying
the measures on recovering the fertility of agricultural lands
 REGULATION OF RENTAL PAYMENTS that should decrease along with increasing
the soil fertility and increase along with decreasing the soil fertility; decreasing
the bank credit rate due to compensating the budgetary share of the rate;
providing the profitable agrarian enterprises with the high priority on purchasing
the reclaimed lands and lands under reclamation; carrying out the purchasing
and commodity interventions, etc.
 IMPROVEMENT OF LEGAL BASIS FOR AGRO-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that defines
the unified admissions for agricultural producers to get the governmental
support independently on forms of ownership, eliminates the price disparity
among the branches of agro-industrial complex, limits the threshold prices and
import quotes, etc.

14. BARRIES PREVENTING SUSTAINABLE SOIL MANAGEMENT APPLICATION
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 Lack of mechanism on governmental encouragement of agricultural producers
for effective land usage and adaptation of advanced technologies for recovering
soil fertility;
 Not appropriate governmental regulation ineffective usage of land funds and
reclaimed lands;
 Break by the land owners the regulations on preventing the negative impact on
the lands;
 Deficiency of the technologies, widely adopted in production conditions, on the
service market; generally they have been tested only at the level of scientific
researches and only in some cases were used in production conditions
The problem of not sufficient efficiency of Sustainable Rural Management in CIS
countries has large scale format, and its reasons have trans boundary aspects.
Solving the questions on effective application the system of Sustainable Soil
Management demands the multilateral cooperation among CIS countries and
the participation of the international organizations, first of all, in the sphere of
experience exchange on development and realization of legal basis and staff
training.

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