To the question of land use in the Orel region

At the present moment the maintenance of the farmland efficient and rational usage acquires specific significance and is considered to be the most important economic and social factor of sustainable economy development and national security protection of the country. However, this vital resource, for a variety of reasons, is used insufficiently both in the Russian Federation and region-wise. The presented material deals with the farmland rotation areas of concern, problems of the organization of rational and efficient farmland usage. By means of the general scientific research methods the monitoring of the utilization of the Orel region land fund including fields, planting acreages of agricultural crops and forage lands (haymaking and pastures) is done, the dynamics of volume and structure factors is studied. The investigation results of acre allocation by categories of the region farms are presented, the progress of the work of farmland chemical melioration is estimated, factors of the effective land use are determined. The strategic directions of agricultural production in the framework of national security protection are defined. The theoretical and practical relevance of the investigation results is that they can be used as a base for further development of methodology of complex economic analysis in the framework of farmland use by agro-industrial complex organizations. Nowadays the guidance papers on the complex evaluation of agricultural production development for monitoring the execution of the tasks assigned by the State Program "Development of agriculture and regulation of agricultural commodities market in the Orel region for 2013-2020" are introduced.