Scientific and methodological approaches to the determination of low-productive arable land

The article highlights the essence of the conceptsof low productivity of arable land, social and naturalfactors that determine the productivity of these lands.Qualitative indicators of arable land productivity,their conditionality and connection with the data ofnatural-agricultural zoning, creditworthiness and normative monetary valuations of lands, rent relations, rent nature of land relations in the agrosphereare substantiated. Scientific and methodological approaches allow determining on the basis of natural agricultural zoning, credit assessment of arable land, standards of capitalized rental income on agricultural land and environmental indicators of use (yield, profitability, cost) of these cereals and legumes as the main, whichprovide security. In a specific study region, the calculations of quantitative and qualitative indicators of low productivity of arable land in terms of agricultural groups of soils of the natural-agricultural area are given. These recommendations will make it possible to adjust the structure of land, sown areas, transform land into more productive, which will ensure the balance of nature and increase the level of protection as land resources and the environment in general. It should be noted that the proposed approaches will minimize the cost of improving the environment (as the cheapest processes) by identifying unproductive lands (especially arable) and transforming them into more productive (hayfields, pastures) and more environmentally resistant to degradation processes (water and wind erosion, reduction of anthropogenic load, etc.).