Regional land use by farms of the Russian Federation

World practice shows the important role of farming in agricultural production and its significant impact on the level of rural life in the country. The purpose of the study is to examine the state of farming in Russia today. This form of hosting in the Russian Federation began to revive relatively recently and is developing more actively than other forms in rural areas. But it is accompanied by a number of problems requiring attention from the state: lack of access to additional funds for a significant proportion of farms (both subsidies and loans); conflicts of interest with large landowners; low viability of small farms; low qualification of the labor force, including the heads of farms; the presence of fictitious farms without land area and farms with a huge area with a high proportion of employees. The situation is significantly aggravated in the regions with unfavorable agro-climatic conditions, such as the Non-Black-Earth Zone, the northern regions of the Volga Region, the Urals, and Siberia. Existing support programs at the federal level are not enough, agricultural cooperation is not developing. In most of the subjects with relatively low development of the peasant (farm) economy, programs for supporting small farms have not been adopted. In order to ensure the development of rural areas, taking into account the interests of the local population, it is proposed to assign the responsibility of land management to the experts, who could plan the development of the agro-industrial complex in rural areas.