Over the past six years, at least three hundred and sixty thousand agricultural hectares have been added to the territory of the Moscow Region.
These lands have been commissioned by farmers in the capital region since 2013, but this figure is far from the limit, according to the press service of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Moscow Region.
According to Andrei Razin, who heads the regional department, this year about eleven thousand hectares were commissioned for agricultural exploitation in the region. Such an “increase” made it possible to increase the percentage of use of arable land to eighty-four percent of the gross area of agro-industrial territories in the vastness of the Moscow Region.
It is expected that before the end of the year another fifty thousand hectares of land near Moscow will be included in the agricultural turnover. Thus, the increase will rise to eighty-eight percent.
Also, Andrei Razin hastened to add that this year, “replenishment” of agricultural territories will occur in the vast areas such as Istra, Mozhaysky, Klinsky, Yegoryevsky, Volokolamsky and Kashirsky.
